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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: 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: picnic
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: easy undertaking

Synonyms:

breeze*, child's play, cinch, duck soup, kid stuff, lark, light work, no trouble, piece of cake, pushover, setup, smooth sailing, snap, sure thing, walkover

Antonyms:

difficulty, drudgery
Main Entry: snap
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: easy thing to accomplish

Synonyms:

breeze*, child's play, cinch, duck soup, ease, easy as pie, kid stuff, no problem, picnic, pie, smooth sailing, soft touch, walkover

Antonyms:

difficulty
Main Entry: plain sailing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: easy path

Synonyms:

easy going, easy progress, easy ride, smooth sailing, straight sailing
Main Entry: informality
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ease

Synonyms:

affability, aplomb, breeze, casualness, child's play, cinch, cleverness, composure, dexterity, dispatch, duck soup, easiness, easygoingness, efficiency, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, familiarity, flexibility, fluency, insouciance, knack, liberty, naturalness, nonchalance, poise, pushover, quickness, readiness, relaxedness, setup, simplicity, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, snap, spontaneity, unaffectedness, unceremoniousness, unconstraint, unreservedness, unrestraint
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Main Entry: facility
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
light, yielding, accessible, at ease, at home, disburdened, disembarrassed, disencumbered, ductile, easily accomplished, easily managed, easy, easy of access, exonerated, facile, feasible, for the million, glib, in one's element, in smooth water, manageable, on friction wheels, on velvet, open to, pliant, quite at home, slippery, smooth, submissive, towardly, tractable, unburdened, unembarrassed, unencumbered, unloaded, unobstructed, unrestrained, untrammeled, wieldy, within reach
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Sudden and violent sounds] Snap.
Category: 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; specific sounds

Synonyms:

-nouns
snap; rapping; decrepitation, crepitation; report, thud; burst, explosion, discharge, detonation, firing, salvo, volley., squib, cracker, gun, popgun.
-verbs
rap, snap, tap, knock; click; clash; crack, crackle; crash; pop; slam, bang, clap; brustle; burst on the ear; crepitate, rump.
-adjectives
rapping.
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Facility.
Category: 1. Conditional antagonism

Synonyms:

-nouns
facility, ease; easiness; capability; feasibility (practicability); flexibility, pliancy; smoothness., plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing; mere child's play, holiday task; cinch [U.S.]., smooth water, fair wind; smooth royal road; clear coast, clear stage; tabula rasa; full play (freedom)., disencumbrance, disentanglement; deoppilation; permission.
-verbs
be easy; go on smoothly, run smoothly; have full play; go on all fours, run on all fours; obey the helm, work well., flow with the stream, swim with the stream, drift with the stream, go with the stream, flow with the tide, drift with the tide; see one's way; have all one's own way, have the game in one's own hands; walk over the course, win at a canter; make light of, make nothing of, make no bones of., be at home in (skillful)., render easy; facilitate, smooth, ease; popularize; lighten, lighten the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle, disengage; deobstruct, unclog, extricate, unravel; untie the knot, cut the knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate; humor (aid); lubricate; relieve., leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open; give the reins to, give full play, give full swing; make way for; open the door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground, clear the ground, open the way, open the path, open the road; pave the way, bridge over; permit.
-adjectives
easy, facile; feasible (practicable); easily managed, easily accomplished; within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to., manageable, wieldy; towardly, tractable; submissive; yielding, ductile; suant; pliant (soft); glib, slippery; smooth; on friction wheels, on velvet., unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed; exonerated; unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled; unrestrained (free); at ease, light., at home; quite at home; in one's element, in smooth water.
-adverbs
easily; readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed.
-phrases
touch and go. [more]

Antonyms:

difficulty
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