List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 131

SYNONYMS: easy, simple, facile, effortless, smooth, light.
These adjectives mean requiring little effort or posing little if any difficulty.

Easy applies both to tasks that require little effort and to persons who are not demanding: The diagnosis of disease is often easy, often difficult, and often impossible. .So as not to be called easy, the teacher graded severely.
Simple implies lack of complexity that facilitates understanding or performance: a simple game; a simple problem; She was just a plan simple girl with no illusions.
Facile stresses readiness and fluency (a facile speaker); often, though, the word has unfavorable connotations, as of lack of care, glibness or insincerity, or superficiality: The explanation is too facile for a complex phenomenon.
Effortless refers to performance in which the application of great strength or skill makes the execution seem easy: a skater performing an effortless double axel; wrote effortless prose.
Smooth suggests freedom from hindrances or difficulties that impede progress: The path of the bill through the legislature was smooth.
Light refers to tasks or impositions that involve no taxing burdens or responsibilities: light duties; light taxes.