"easy-going" meaning in English

See easy-going in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more easy-going [comparative], easy-goinger [comparative], most easy-going [superlative], easy-goingest [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|more,er}} easy-going (comparative more easy-going or easy-goinger, superlative most easy-going or easy-goingest)
  1. Alternative spelling of easygoing. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: easygoing
    Sense id: en-easy-going-en-adj-AXxPj6SE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "In short, the old town—the lovablest, old-timiest, easy-goingest old town that ever was—sits there by the River, hugging its traditions, and hoarding its stories, of which it has enough to make a new Thousand and One Nights.",
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          "ref": "1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter X”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 126:",
          "text": "He dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easy-going ways and conditions of feeling and manner of speech, and no familiar of his could have detected anything in him that differentiated him from the weak and careless Tom of other days.",
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          "text": "The Eskimo is a nobler, cheerfuller and easy-goinger person than we smug civilized citizens have always imagined. Rockwell Kent, the noted Eskimophile, claims they are a polite and happy race.",
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          "text": "The easy-goingest mushroom grower I know is a remarkable Florida lady named Rachel Jackson. She lives on the Linger Longer Ranch at Barberville, Florida, and is always looking for sharecroppers who will come trailer and all and help garden her land in return for three-quarters of the produce.",
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          "ref": "2021 March 10, Paul Bigland, “They can leave their problems at the gate”, in RAIL, number 926, page 61:",
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          "text": "The easy-goingest mushroom grower I know is a remarkable Florida lady named Rachel Jackson. She lives on the Linger Longer Ranch at Barberville, Florida, and is always looking for sharecroppers who will come trailer and all and help garden her land in return for three-quarters of the produce.",
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              68,
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