easy vs stern

easy

adj
  • Requiring little skill or effort. 

  • Consenting readily to sex. 

  • Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth. 

  • Comfortable; at ease. 

  • Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour. 

  • Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant. 

adv
  • In a relaxed or casual manner. 

  • In a manner without strictness or harshness. 

  • At the very least. 

noun
  • Something that is easy. 

verb
  • Synonym of easy-oar 

stern

adj
  • Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner. 

  • Grim and forbidding in appearance. 

noun
  • A bird, the black tern. 

  • The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog. 

  • The hinder part of anything. 

  • The post of management or direction. 

  • The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel. 

verb
  • To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water. 

How often have the words easy and stern occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )