Usually means: Absence of difficulty or effort.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word ease:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. ease: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ease: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ease: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ease: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ease: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ease, ease: Wordnik
  7. ease: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ease: Wiktionary
  9. ease: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ease: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ease: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ease: Dictionary.com
  13. ease: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ease: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. EASE, Ease (programming language), Ease (sewing), Ease: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ease: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ease: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ease: Rhymezone
  19. ease: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ease: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. EASE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Ease, Ease: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. ease: Free Dictionary
  24. ease: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. ease: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. ease: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. ease: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ease: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. Ease (disambiguation), ease: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ease: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Ease (disambiguation), ease: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Ease (disambiguation), ease: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. EASE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. ease: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ease, ease: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ease: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See eased as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Ability, the means to do something
noun:  Skill, dexterity, facility.
noun:  Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness
noun:  Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
noun:  Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
noun:  Freedom from difficulty.
noun:  Freedom from effort, leisure, rest.
noun:  Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
noun:  Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
noun:  Relief, an end to discomfort
noun:  Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
noun:  (euphemistic, obsolete) Release from intestinal discomfort: defecation.
noun:  Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
noun:  (clothing) Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
noun:  (obsolete) A convenience; a luxury.
noun:  (obsolete) A relief; an easement.
verb:  (transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
verb:  (transitive) To give respite to (someone).
verb:  (nautical, transitive) To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce the difficulty of (something).
verb:  (transitive) To move (something) slowly and carefully.
verb:  (intransitive) To lessen in intensity.
verb:  (intransitive) To proceed with little effort.
verb:  (transitive, slang, archaic) To take something from (a person), especially by robbery.

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