easygoing

or eas·y-go·ing

[ ee-zee-goh-ing ]

adjective

1. calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual:

   an easygoing person.

2. going going go easily, as a horse.

Other Words From

• easy·going·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of easygoing¹

First recorded in 1665–75; easy + going

Example Sentences

Docile animals that cooperate in these ceremonies are kept around, reproducing longer and creating future generations with easygoing temperaments.

From Popular-Science

Speaking in a low, easygoing drawl, she recalled playing make-believe in the woods, savoring plums fresh from the garden, spending summer evenings on the porch listening to the radio with one ear while eavesdropping on grown-ups with the other.

From Washington Post

Yet, beneath this avuncular, easygoing public persona, Beard was uncomfortable in his own skin.

From Washington Blade

James Stepney, a 32-year-old senior customer-support technician from the Bronx, with a kind smile and an easygoing warmth around the office, had wanted to get in one last workout before New York’s gyms closed.

From Fortune

The producer jovial and warm, taking the role of the easygoing partner, but fully in control of every single beat.

From Fortune

"I'm easygoing," he says, sitting in the spotless, stylish living room of his suburban Baltimore home.

From The Daily Beast

If Palmer seems easygoing, it may be because that's how a "perfect" person should appear.

From The Daily Beast

His reviews, rightly, call him “sweet,” “demure,”  “easygoing.”

From The Daily Beast

Clark was a big, easygoing fellow, a plodder, a fifteen-year man with the highway patrol.

From The Daily Beast

It is incredibly multicultural and people, on the whole, are easygoing.

From The Daily Beast

The easygoing paternal rule was to come to an end, and a long period of bloodshed and turbulence was to succeed.

From Project Gutenberg

He was easygoing when at home on leave, or off on one of his outings, as he had been when she met him in New London.

From Project Gutenberg

The filth, the intolerable weariness, the instant necessity of the tasks, stagger the easygoing suburban reader.

From Project Gutenberg

One easygoing housekeeper used to say that, in her opinion, there was a genius in slighting.

From Project Gutenberg

He belonged to a world that she did not know—and yet he was so perfectly at home with her, so idly easygoing.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• breezy
• carefree
• casual
• even-tempered
• happy-go-lucky
• laid-back
• mild
• offhand
• placid
• relaxed
• self-possessed
• serene
• tranquil
• unhurried