1
[ adjective ] free from worry or anxiety

Synonyms

easy

Examples

"knowing that I had done my best, my mind was easy" "an easy good-natured manner" "by the time the child faced the actual problem of reading she was familiar and at ease with all the elements words"

Used in print

(Jesse W. Grimes and Wesley Allinsmith, "Compuls...)

By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading , he is completely familiar and at_ease with all_of the elements of words .

Related terms

uneasy relaxed comfortable

2
[ adjective ] without strain or anxiety

Synonyms

relaxed

Examples

"gave the impression of being quite relaxed" "a relaxed and informal discussion"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

Instead , the audience can sit_back at_ease and , from the perspective of an enlightened time which no_longer believes_in such things , enjoy the dead seriousness with which the characters in the play take the witches and devils which are under discussion .

3
[ adverb ] in a relaxed position, of soldiers

Synonyms

at_rest

Examples

"the soldiers were standing at ease"

4
[ adjective ] socially at ease

Examples

"was at ease with strangers"

Related terms

comfortable

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