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childs play
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy task |
| Synonyms: | breeze, cinch, drop in the bucket, duck soup, easy thing, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, simple matter, small potatoes |
| Main Entry: | duck soup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy task |
| Synonyms: | a breeze, a snap, breeze, cakewalk, cherry pie, child's play, child's play, cinch, easily accomplished task, easy, easy thing, easy to do, kid stuff, no sweat, no-brainer, picnic, pie, piece of cake, pushover, snap, turkey shoot, velvet, walkover, waltz |
| Main Entry: | ease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facility, freedom |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, affability, aplomb, breeze, child's play, cinch, cleverness, composure, dexterity, dispatch, duck soup, easygoingness, efficiency, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, familiarity, flexibility, fluency, informality, insouciance, knack, liberty, naturalness, nonchalance, poise, pushover, quickness, readiness, relaxedness, setup, simplicity, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, snap, unaffectedness, unconstraint, unreservedness |
| Antonyms: | difficulty, effort, inhibition, perplexity, restriction |
| Main Entry: | easy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not difficult |
| Synonyms: | accessible, apparent, basic, child's play, cinch, clear, easily done, effortless, elementary, evident, facile, inconsiderable, light, little, manageable, manifest, mere, no bother, no problem, no sweat, no trouble, not burdensome, nothing to it, obvious, painless, paltry, picnic, piece of cake, plain, plain sailing, pushover, royal, simple, simple as ABC, slight, smooth, snap, straightforward, uncomplicated, undemanding, uninvolved, untroublesome, wieldy, yielding |
| Antonyms: | arduous, complex, complicated, demanding, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, laborious, uneasy |
| Main Entry: | effortless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easy |
| Synonyms: | child's play, cursive, duck soup, facile, flowing, fluent, light, no problem, no sweat, offhand, painless, picnic, piece of cake, royal, running, simple, smooth, snap*, uncomplicated, undemanding, untroublesome |
| Antonyms: | complicated, demanding, difficult, effortful, hard, labored |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elementary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple, basic |
| Synonyms: | ABCs, abecedarian, basal, beginning, child's play, clear, duck soup, easy, elemental, essential, facile, foundational, fundamental, initial, introductory, meat and potatoes, original, plain, prefatory, preliminary, primary, primitive, primo, rudimentary, simplest, simplex, simplified, straightforward, substratal, uncomplex, uncomplicated, underlying |
| Antonyms: | abstruse, advanced, complex, complicated, compound, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, secondary |
| Main Entry: | facile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easy; easily mastered |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, child's play, cursory, deft, dexterous, easy as pie, effortless, fast talk, flip*, fluent, glib, hasty, light, obvious, picnic, practiced, proficient, pushover, quick, ready, shallow, simple, skillful, slick*, smooth, superficial, uncomplicated, untroublesome, voluble |
| Antonyms: | arduous, complicated, confusing, difficult, hard, involved, laborious, profound |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | facility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ease; ability |
| Synonyms: | address, adroitness, aptitude, bent, child's play, competence, dexterity, efficiency, effortlessness, expertness, fluency, knack, leaning, lightness, poise, proficiency, propensity, quickness, readiness, skill, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, spontaneity, tact, turn, wit |
| Notes: | a facility is a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry or a skillful performance or ability without difficulty; faculty is one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind or the body of teachers and administrators at a school |
| Antonyms: | difficulty, hardness |
| Main Entry: | nothing to it |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effortless |
| Synonyms: | a breeze, child's play, duck soup, easy, easy as ABC, easy as pie, no problem, no sweat, painless, piece of cake, simple, snap*, uncomplicated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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