at ease

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at ease

relaxed and comfortable. The girl behind the bar was completely at ease, chatting with her customers as she mixed their drinks.

Usage notes: often used in the form put someone at ease make someone comfortable: We were greeted by a young woman who immediately put us at ease.

Opposite of: ill at ease

See also: ease

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I will tell you: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do that they have found an infallible foundation for their activity, and their minds are at ease and you know that is the chief thing. Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context His legs were weary, but his mind was at ease, free from the presentiment of change. Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context Thence more at ease thir minds and somwhat rais'd By false presumptuous hope, the ranged powers Disband, and wandring, each his several way Pursues, as inclination or sad choice Leads him perplext, where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts, and entertain The irksome hours, till his great Chief return. Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context More results

References in classic literature

I will tell you: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do that they have found an infallible foundation for their activity, and their minds are at ease and you know that is the chief thing.

Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

His legs were weary, but his mind was at ease, free from the presentiment of change.

Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context

Thence more at ease thir minds and somwhat rais'd By false presumptuous hope, the ranged powers Disband, and wandring, each his several way Pursues, as inclination or sad choice Leads him perplext, where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts, and entertain The irksome hours, till his great Chief return.

Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context

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