eath

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adjective

Easy; not hard or difficult.

Opposite
uneathdifficult
OriginMiddle English ethe ← Old English īeþe ← Proto-Germanic *auþuz →
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Meanings

adjectiveeath (comparative eather, superlative eathest)

comparative eather · superlative eathest · alternative eathe · alternative eeth · alternative eith · alternative aith

  1. dialectalEasy; not hard or difficult.

    At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids.

    1609, Thomas Heywood, Troia Britanica, or Great Britain's Troy
    2 more examples

    There, as he look'd, he saw the canvas rent, / Through which the voice found eath and open way.

    1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIX, lxi

    There has been much written on the learning of Shakespeare but not much to the purpose: one of our old Scotch proverbs is worth all the dissertations on the subject I have yet seen. "God's bairns", it says, "are eath to lear",[…].

    1847, Hugh Miller, First Impressions of England and its people
adverb

alternative eathe · alternative eeth · alternative eith · alternative aith

  1. dialectalEasily.

    Their food and their raiment he eith can supply.

    1823, J. Kennedy, Poems
    1 more example

    He rub'd, and prickt, and pierst her to the bones, / Digging as farre as eath he might for stones ...

    1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines, lines 142-143

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
uneathdifficult
Also see
easyplain-sailingsimplestruggleless

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew-“to enjoy, consume”
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éwtus
  3. Proto-Germanic*auþuz
  4. Old Englishīeþe
  5. Middle Englishethe“easy”
  6. Englisheath

From Middle English ethe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Cognate with Scots eith (“easy”), Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi (“easy, effortless”), Middle High German œde (“easy”), Old Norse auðr, auð- (“easy”), Icelandic auð (“(adverb) easily”), auð- (“easy”). More at easy.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

eath. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eath

MLA

“eath.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eath. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eath,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eath.

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