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

  1. 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]]"

  2. 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."

  3. Difficult as an adjective (obsolete):

    Unable or unwilling.

  1. Difficult as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sir W. Temple"

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. Easy as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "Rich people live in easy circumstances."

    "an easy chair"

  4. Easy as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "easy manners; an easy style"

  5. 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."

  6. Easy as an adjective:

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

  7. Easy as an adjective (finance, dated):

    Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to .

    Examples:

    "The market is easy."

  1. Easy as an adverb:

    In a relaxed or casual manner.

    Examples:

    "After his illness, John decided to [[take it easy take it easy]]."

  2. Easy as an adverb:

    In a manner without strictness or harshness.

    Examples:

    "Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm."

  3. Easy as an adverb:

    Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.

    Examples:

    "This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy."

  4. Easy as an adverb:

    Not difficult, not hard.

  1. Easy as a noun:

    Something that is easy

  1. Easy as a verb (rowing):