not easy
Requiring real effort
Difficult or challenging; requiring effort, skill, or endurance.
The phrase softens difficult slightly, often acknowledging genuine obstacles without dramatizing them: Learning a new language is not easy.
Sometimes used with understatement to describe something extremely hard: Raising three kids alone is not easy.
- arduousDemanding strenuous effort
- backbreakingExtremely physically demanding
- strenuousRequiring intense exertion
- hard slogProlonged difficult effort
- burdensomeDifficult to endure
heavy lifting · complex · challenging · inconvenient · exhausting · laborious · taxing · no picnic · perplexing · puzzling · Herculean · demanding · tall order · grueling · enigmatic · frustrating · effortful · overwhelming
not easyeasy
Requiring minimal effort
simple · effortless · a breeze · child's play · a walk in the park
not easystraightforward
Clear and uncomplicated
simple · uncomplicated · plain · basic · clear-cut
not easyaccessible
Able to be reached
approachable · user-friendly · beginner-friendly · open · welcoming
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