Meaning & use

Easeful

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Characterized by ease, comfort, or peaceful rest; free from struggle or trouble.

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After the long hike, they spent an easeful afternoon lounging by the lake.

The poem longs for an easeful death, free from pain and suffering.

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The word appears famously in Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale,' where he writes of being 'half in love with easeful Death.'

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