The difference between Difficult and Easy
When used as adjectives, difficult means hard, not easy, requiring much effort, whereas easy means comfortable.
Difficult is also verb with the meaning: to make difficult.
Easy is also noun with the meaning: something that is easy.
Easy is also adverb with the meaning: in a relaxed or casual manner.
check bellow for the other definitions of Difficult and Easy
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Difficult as an adjective:
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
Examples:
"However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.'' [[File:However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.ogg]]"
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Difficult as an adjective (often, _, of a, person, or a horse, etc):
Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
Examples:
"Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you."
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Difficult as an adjective (obsolete):
Unable or unwilling.
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Difficult as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
Examples:
"rfquotek Sir W. Temple"
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Easy as an adjective (now, rare, _, except in certain expressions):
Comfortable; at ease.
Examples:
"Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night."
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Easy as an adjective:
Requiring little skill or effort.
Examples:
"It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up."
"The teacher gave an easy test to her students."
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Easy as an adjective:
Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
Examples:
"Rich people live in easy circumstances."
"an easy chair"
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Easy as an adjective:
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
Examples:
"easy manners; an easy style"
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Easy as an adjective (informal, pejorative, of a person):
Consenting readily to sex.
Examples:
"He has a reputation for being easy; they say he slept with half the senior class."
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Easy as an adjective:
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
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Easy as an adjective (finance, dated):
Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to .
Examples:
"The market is easy."
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Easy as an adverb:
In a relaxed or casual manner.
Examples:
"After his illness, John decided to [[take it easy take it easy]]."
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Easy as an adverb:
In a manner without strictness or harshness.
Examples:
"Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm."
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Easy as an adverb:
Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
Examples:
"This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy."
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Easy as an adverb:
Not difficult, not hard.
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Easy as a noun:
Something that is easy
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Easy as a verb (rowing):