easy

These words all refer to things that do not require much effort or thought to do or understand.

The most common word for this is easy.

Two opposites of easy are difficult and hard.

For more opposites of easy, see the article at difficult.

If something is easy to do or understand, we often use the adjectives simple or straightforward.

In informal situations there are also some fixed expressions you can use to say that something is very easy to do. For example, you can say that something easy is a piece of cake, or that it's plain sailing in UK English or smooth sailing in US English.

If you can do something very easily, you can also say in informal language that you can do it with one arm/hand tied behind your back.

In informal language, you can also use the phrase as easy as followed by the words pie, anything, or the phrase falling off a log to describe things that are extremely easy to do.

If a machine or system is easy to use, we often describe it as user-friendly.

If something is so easy to use that you cannot make any mistakes, you can call it foolproof.

In informal situations, you can use the word cushy if you think that someone's job or situation is too easy and you do not approve.

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