What are the opposite words for ease?
The term "ease" refers to the quality or state of being comfortable, relaxed, or free from difficulty or stress. Antonyms for ease include words such as difficulty, discomfort, hardship, complexity, struggle, and hassle. When we encounter situations or tasks that are challenging or require effort, we experience a sense of unease or discomfort. For example, a complex mathematical problem or a difficult conversation with someone can be situations that cause discomfort to some. Therefore, when we look for antonyms for ease, we find the words that clearly express a sense of discomfort, difficulty, and struggle that many of us feel in such situations.
-
pain
- anguished,
- cut to the quick,
- cut quick,
- cut the quick,
- cut to quick,
- cuts quick,
- cuts the quick,
- cuts to quick,
- cuts to the quick,
- cutting quick,
- cutting the quick,
- cutting to quick,
- cutting to the quick,
- ex cruciate,
- ex-cruciate,
- hit where one lives,
- hits where lives,
- hits where one lives,
- hitting where lives,
- hitting where one lives,
- soreness.
-
complicate
- embroiled,
- interrelate,
- interrelated,
- muck up,
- Interfuse,
- snarl up,
- interrelating,
- interfused,
- make intricate,
- render unintelligible,
- adds fuel fire,
- adds fuel to fire,
- de range,
- de ranged,
- de ranges,
- de ranging,
- de-range,
- de-ranged,
- de-ranges,
- de-ranging,
- dis arrange,
- dis arranged,
- dis arranges,
- dis arranging,
- dis order,
- dis ordered,
- dis ordering,
- dis orders,
- dis-arrange,
- dis-arranged,
- dis-arranges,
- dis-arranging,
- dis-order,
- dis-ordered,
- dis-ordering,
- dis-orders,
- in fold,
- in folding,
- in folds,
- in-fold,
- in-folded,
- in-folding,
- in-folds,
- inter fuse,
- inter fused,
- inter fuses,
- inter fusing,
- inter relate,
- inter related,
- inter relates,
- inter relating,
- inter weave,
- inter weaved,
- inter weaves,
- inter weaving,
- inter wove,
- inter woven,
- inter-fuse,
- inter-fused,
- inter-fuses,
- inter-fusing,
- inter-relate,
- inter-related,
- inter-relates,
- inter-relating,
- inter-weave,
- inter-weaved,
- inter-weaves,
- inter-weaving,
- inter-wove,
- inter-woven,
- interfuses,
- interfusing,
- interrelates,
- made intricate,
- made waves,
- make waves,
- makes intricate,
- makes waves,
- making intricate,
- making waves,
- mucked up,
- mucking up,
- mucks up,
- multi plying,
- multi-plied,
- multi-plying,
- open can of worms,
- open can worms,
- opened can of worms,
- opened can worms,
- opening can of worms,
- opening can worms,
- opens can of worms,
- opens can worms,
- rendered unintelligible,
- rendering unintelligible,
- renders unintelligible,
- snafued,
- snafuing,
- snarled up,
- snarling up,
- snarls up.
-
discomfort
- Nettles,
- dis comfit,
- dis comfits,
- dis comforted,
- dis comforting,
- dis compose,
- dis composed,
- dis composes,
- dis composing,
- dis-comfit,
- dis-comfits,
- dis-comforted,
- dis-comforting,
- dis-compose,
- dis-composed,
- dis-composes,
- dis-composing,
- made uncomfortable,
- make uncomfortable,
- makes uncomfortable,
- making uncomfortable,
- dis comfort,
- dis comforts,
- dis-comfort,
- dis-comforts.
-
disquiet
- dis quieted,
- dis quieting,
- dis-quieted,
- dis-quieting,
- in commode,
- in commodes,
- in-commodes,
- un hinge,
- un hinged,
- un hinges,
- un hinging,
- un settle,
- un settled,
- un settles,
- un settling,
- un-hinge,
- un-hinged,
- un-hinges,
- un-hinging,
- un-settle,
- un-settled,
- un-settling,
- dis quiet,
- dis quiets,
- dis-quiet,
- dis-quiets,
- un rests.
-
vex
- tick off,
- ticked off,
- ticking off,
- am at,
- are at,
- art at,
- be at,
- being at,
- de press,
- de pressed,
- de presses,
- de pressing,
- de-press,
- de-pressed,
- de-presses,
- de-pressing,
- gat hair,
- gat in hair,
- gat in one hair,
- gat in one's hair,
- gat in ones hair,
- gat one hair,
- gat one's hair,
- gat ones hair,
- gave a bad time,
- gave a hard time,
- get in one hair,
- get in one's hair,
- get in ones hair,
- get one hair,
- get one's hair,
- get ones hair,
- gets hair,
- gets in hair,
- gets in one hair,
- gets in ones hair,
- gets one hair,
- gets one's hair,
- gets ones hair,
- getting hair,
- getting in hair,
- getting in one hair,
- getting in one's hair,
- getting in ones hair,
- getting one hair,
- getting one's hair,
- getting ones hair,
- give a bad time,
- give bad time,
- give hard time,
- gives a bad time,
- gives a hard time,
- gives bad time,
- gives hard time,
- giving a bad time,
- giving hard time,
- got hair,
- got in hair,
- got in one hair,
- got in one's hair,
- got in ones hair,
- got ones hair,
- gotten hair,
- gotten in hair,
- gotten in one hair,
- gotten in one's hair,
- gotten one hair,
- is at,
- ticks off,
- was at,
- wast at,
- were at,
- wert at.
-
bother
- carp at,
- be devil,
- be deviled,
- be deviling,
- be devilled,
- be devilling,
- be devils,
- be-devil,
- be-deviled,
- be-deviling,
- be-devilled,
- be-devilling,
- be-devils,
- carped at,
- carping at,
- carps at,
- dis commode,
- dis commodes,
- dis concert,
- dis concerted,
- dis concerting,
- dis concerts,
- dis gust,
- dis gusted,
- dis gusting,
- dis gusts,
- dis mayed,
- dis maying,
- dis please,
- dis pleased,
- dis pleases,
- dis pleasing,
- dis tressed,
- dis-commode,
- dis-commodes,
- dis-concert,
- dis-concerted,
- dis-concerting,
- dis-concerts,
- dis-gust,
- dis-gusted,
- dis-gusting,
- dis-gusts,
- dis-mayed,
- dis-maying,
- dis-please,
- dis-pleased,
- dis-pleases,
- dis-pleasing,
- dis-tressed,
- ex acerbate,
- ex acerbated,
- ex acerbating,
- ex-acerbated,
- ex-acerbates,
- ex-acerbating,
- grated on,
- grates on,
- grating on,
- intrude up on,
- intrude upon,
- intruded up on,
- intruded upon,
- intrudes up on,
- intrudes upon,
- intruding up on,
- intruding upon,
- up setting,
- up-setting,
- molestation,
- molestations,
- TODO,
- to do.
-
exasperate
- embitter,
- exacerbate,
- toff,
- work up,
- in flames,
- drave the wall,
- drave up the wall,
- drave up wall,
- drave wall,
- drive the wall,
- drive up the wall,
- drive up wall,
- drive wall,
- drives the wall,
- drives up the wall,
- drives up wall,
- drives wall,
- driving the wall,
- driving up the wall,
- driving up wall,
- driving wall,
- drove the wall,
- drove up the wall,
- drove up wall,
- drove wall,
- ex acerbates,
- ex asperate,
- ex asperated,
- ex asperates,
- ex asperating,
- ex cite,
- ex cited,
- ex cites,
- ex citing,
- ex-acerbate,
- ex-asperate,
- ex-asperated,
- ex-asperates,
- ex-asperating,
- ex-cite,
- ex-cited,
- ex-cites,
- get under one skin,
- get under ones skin,
- get under skin,
- in cense,
- in censed,
- in censes,
- in censing,
- in flame,
- in flamed,
- in flaming,
- in-cense,
- in-censed,
- in-censes,
- in-censing,
- in-flame,
- in-flamed,
- in-flames,
- t off,
- t offed,
- t offing,
- t offs,
- t-offed,
- t-offing,
- t-offs,
- toffed,
- toffing,
- toffs,
- tried patience of,
- tried the patience of,
- tries patience of,
- tries the patience of,
- try patience of,
- try the patience of,
- trying patience of,
- trying the patience of.
- confuse, make difficult
-
alleviate, help
- aggravate,
- agitate,
- annoy,
- block,
- bring down,
- burden,
- cease,
- check,
- condemn,
- delay,
- demote,
- depress,
- enlarge,
- exasperate,
- excite,
- extend,
- halt,
- harm,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hurt,
- impede,
- incite,
- increase,
- injure,
- intensify,
- irritate,
- keep,
- maintain,
- perplex,
- provoke,
- slow,
- stop,
- trouble,
- vex,
- weaken,
- worsen,
- make difficult.
- guide, move carefully
- upset, provoke
-
distress, bother
- vex.
- hopelessness
- attribute
- adversity
- difficulty
- aggravation
- fear
- uncertainty
- ghost
-
poverty
- abjection,
- exiguity,
- impecuniousness,
- pauperism,
- pennilessness,
- penuriousness,
- underdevelopment,
- Neediness,
- Necessitousness,
- abjections,
- exiguities,
- in adequacies,
- in adequacy,
- in solvency,
- in sufficiencies,
- in sufficiency,
- in-adequacies,
- in-adequacy,
- in-solvencies,
- in-solvency,
- in-sufficiencies,
- in-sufficiency,
- necessitousnesses,
- pauperisms,
- under development,
- under developments,
- under-development,
- under-developments,
- underdevelopments.
- hindrance
- dismay
- tightness
- predicament
-
doubt
- agnosticism,
- demurral,
- agnosticisms,
- demurrals,
- dis belief,
- dis beliefs,
- dis credit,
- dis credits,
- dis trust,
- dis trusts,
- dis-belief,
- dis-beliefs,
- dis-credit,
- dis-credits,
- dis-trust,
- dis-trusts,
- falterings,
- in certitude,
- in certitudes,
- in credulities,
- in credulity,
- in decision,
- in decisions,
- in-certitudes,
- in-decision,
- in-decisions,
- lack confidence,
- lack of confidence,
- waverings.
-
anger
- ill humor,
- ill temper,
- infuriation,
- tizzy,
- Mads,
- hissy fit,
- slow burn,
- blow ups,
- cat fit,
- cat fits,
- dis approbation,
- dis approbations,
- dis pleasure,
- dis pleasures,
- dis temper,
- dis tempers,
- dis-approbation,
- dis-approbations,
- dis-pleasure,
- dis-pleasures,
- dis-temper,
- dis-tempers,
- hissy fits,
- ill humors,
- ill tempers,
- infuriations,
- out rages,
- out-rage,
- out-rages.
- anticipation
- anxiousness
- argument
- at ease
-
awkwardness
- amateurishness,
- boorishness,
- bulkiness,
- crudeness,
- cumbersomeness,
- gawkiness,
- hazardousness,
- ineptness,
- inopportuneness,
- maladroitness,
- painfulness,
- perilousness,
- troublesomeness,
- uncomfortableness,
- uncouthness,
- unskillfulness,
- untimeliness,
- unwieldiness,
- ticklishness,
- cloddishness,
- thorniness,
- chanciness,
- Unhandiness,
- amateurishnesses,
- boorishnesses,
- bulkinesses,
- chancinesses,
- cloddishnesses,
- crudenesses,
- cumbersomenesses,
- gawkinesses,
- gracelessnesses,
- hazardousnesses,
- in competence,
- in convenience,
- in expertnesses,
- in opportuneness,
- in opportunenesses,
- in-competences,
- in-expertness,
- in-opportunenesses,
- oafishnesses,
- painfulnesses,
- perilousnesses,
- tactlessnesses,
- thorninesses,
- ticklishnesses,
- troublesomenesses,
- un comfortableness,
- un comfortablenesses,
- un coordination,
- un coordinations,
- un gainliness,
- un gainlinesses,
- un handiness,
- un handinesses,
- un manageabilities,
- un manageability,
- un pleasantness,
- un pleasantnesses,
- un skillfulness,
- un skillfulnesses,
- un timeliness,
- un-comfortableness,
- un-comfortablenesses,
- un-coordination,
- un-coordinations,
- un-gainlinesses,
- un-handiness,
- un-handinesses,
- un-manageabilities,
- un-manageability,
- un-pleasantness,
- un-pleasantnesses,
- un-skillfulness,
- un-skillfulnesses,
- un-timeliness,
- uncomfortablenesses,
- uncoordination,
- uncoordinations,
- uncouthnesses,
- ungainlinesses,
- unhandinesses,
- unskillfulnesses,
- unwieldinesses.
- burden
- care
- complicatedness
-
confusion
- dis array,
- dis arrays,
- dis location,
- dis locations,
- dis organization,
- dis organizations,
- dis traction,
- dis tractions,
- dis-array,
- dis-arrays,
- dis-location,
- dis-locations,
- dis-organization,
- dis-organizations,
- dis-traction,
- dis-tractions,
- emotional upset,
- emotional upsets,
- mis take,
- mis takes,
- mis-take,
- mis-takes,
- sur prise,
- sur prises,
- sur-prise,
- sur-prises,
- un tidiness,
- un tidinesses,
- un-tidinesses,
- up-roar,
- up-roars.
- cramp
- desperation
- distress
- ease off
- incommodiousness
- instability
- intensity
- irascibility
- malaise
- millstone
- misery
- muscle spasm
- pinch
-
polemic
- crusher,
- dustup,
- finisher,
- knockdown,
- set-to,
- statics,
- face off,
- OUTS,
- knockdowns,
- dustups,
- brannigan,
- bone to pick,
- bone contention,
- bone pick,
- brannigans,
- crushers,
- difference opinion,
- dis agreement,
- dis agreements,
- dis-agreement,
- dis-agreements,
- ex change,
- ex changes,
- faceoff,
- knock down and drag out,
- knock down and drag outs,
- set to,
- set tos,
- set-tos,
- setto,
- settos.
- problem
-
restlessness
- ant,
- fitfulness,
- inconstancy,
- inquietude,
- jumpiness,
- restiveness,
- transience,
- unease,
- Unsettledness,
- Ants,
- inconstancies,
- antsiness,
- antsinesses,
- fitfulnesses,
- in constancies,
- in constancy,
- in stability,
- in-constancies,
- in-constancy,
- in-stabilities,
- in-stability,
- transiences,
- un settledness,
- un-settledness,
- un-settlednesses,
- unsettlednesses,
- worriednesses.
- scruple
- solicitude
- stew
- temper
- trial
- unease
- unrest
- unstableness
- ache
- annoyance
-
anxiety
- anxiousness,
- butterfly,
- cold sweat,
- fretfulness,
- mistrust,
- panic,
- willies,
- worriment,
- Butterflies,
- Uncertainties,
- Nail Biting,
- all overs,
- allovers,
- ants in pants,
- ants pants,
- cold sweats,
- fore boding,
- fore bodings,
- fore-boding,
- fore-bodings,
- fretfulnesses,
- mis trust,
- mis trusts,
- mis-trust,
- mis-trusts,
- nail bitings,
- nail-biting,
- nail-bitings,
- nailbiting,
- nailbitings,
- pins needles,
- un certainties,
- un certainty,
- un easinesses,
- un-certainties,
- un-certainty,
- worriments.
- apprehension
- bugbear
- commotion
- complication
- concern
- corner
- disaster
- disquietude
- embarrassment
- emergency
- entanglement
- force
- fuss
- hardship
-
hurt
- boo-boo,
- ill-treatment,
- ill treatments,
- booboos,
- Downs,
- booboo,
- black and blue,
- black and blues,
- black blue,
- black blues,
- boo-boos,
- dis advantage,
- dis advantages,
- dis service,
- dis services,
- dis-advantage,
- dis-advantages,
- dis-service,
- dis-services,
- ill treatment,
- ill-treatments,
- illtreatments,
- mis chief,
- mis chiefs.
- imbroglio
- impatience
- inconvenience
- inflexibility
- inquietude
- misfortune
- misgiving
-
muddle
- ataxia,
- Ataxias,
- dis arrangement,
- dis arrangements,
- dis-arrangement,
- dis-arrangements,
- foul ups,
- foul-up,
- foul-ups,
- foulup,
- foulups,
- mess a half,
- mess a halves,
- mess and a half,
- mess and a halves,
- mess and half,
- mess and halves,
- mess half,
- mess halves,
- rat nest,
- rat's nest,
- rats nest,
- rats nests,
- screw ups,
- screw-ups.
- nervousness
-
netting
- web.
- pressure
- qualm
- ricketiness
- rigor
- snarl
- stiffness
- strain
- strait
- stress
- tangle
- tension
- trouble
- uneasiness
- web
- wrath
-
sore feeling; dull pain
- ache.
-
upset
- disquietude,
- queasiness,
- uneasiness,
- de feat,
- de feats,
- de-feat,
- de-feats,
- free for all,
- over throw,
- over throws,
- over-throw,
- over-throws,
- queasinesses,
- re version,
- re versions,
- re-version,
- re-versions,
- shake ups,
- shake-up,
- shake-ups,
- sub version,
- sub versions,
- sub-version,
- sub-versions,
- up set,
- up sets,
- up-set,
- up-sets.
- bad luck, situation
- feeling of sudden fear
- state of being mad, annoyed
- worry, tension
- anxiety, fear
- clumsiness; inelegance
- trouble, inconvenience
- obstacle
- bad end of a situation
- mental weight; stress
- trepidation
-
insecureness
- capriciousness,
- changeability,
- changeableness,
- disequilibrium,
- fickleness,
- impermanence,
- mutability,
- unreliability,
- variability,
- Unfixedness,
- capriciousnesses,
- changeabilities,
- changeablenesses,
- dis equilibrium,
- dis equilibriums,
- dis-equilibrium,
- dis-equilibriums,
- disequilibriums,
- ficklenesses,
- impermanences,
- in consistencies,
- in consistency,
- in secureness,
- in securenesses,
- in-consistencies,
- in-consistency,
- in-secureness,
- in-securenesses,
- mutabilities,
- un fixedness,
- un fixednesses,
- un predictabilities,
- un predictability,
- un reliabilities,
- un sureness,
- un-fixedness,
- un-fixednesses,
- un-reliabilities,
- un-reliability,
- un-surenesses,
- unfixednesses,
- unpredictabilities,
- unreliabilities,
- variabilities.
-
personal interest, concern
- care.
- skein
-
suspense
- grabber,
- potboiler,
- grabbers,
- potboilers,
- thrillers,
- cliff-hanger,
- page-turner,
- chillers,
- cliff hanger,
- cliff hangers,
- cliff-hangers,
- cloak and dagger,
- cloak and daggers,
- cloak dagger,
- cloak daggers,
- in decisiveness,
- in decisivenesses,
- in-decisivenesses,
- page turners,
- page-turners,
- pageturner,
- pageturners.
- clamor, uproar
- difficult situation
- interest; anxiety
- disoriented state
- exigency/exigence
- stumbling block
-
dissatisfaction
- lamentation,
- querulousness,
- dis approval,
- dis approvals,
- dis favor,
- dis favors,
- dis inclination,
- dis inclinations,
- dis liking,
- dis likings,
- dis relish,
- dis relishes,
- dis satisfaction,
- dis satisfactions,
- dis taste,
- dis tastes,
- dis-approval,
- dis-approvals,
- dis-favor,
- dis-favors,
- dis-inclination,
- dis-inclinations,
- dis-liking,
- dis-likings,
- dis-relish,
- dis-relishes,
- dis-satisfaction,
- dis-satisfactions,
- dis-taste,
- dis-tastes,
- dislikings,
- in disposition,
- in dispositions,
- in-disposition,
- in-dispositions,
- malcontentment,
- malcontentments,
- malcontents,
- querulousnesses.
- problem; situation requiring great effort
- exasperation
- irritation, pain
- disappointed feeling; distress
- worry; mental upset
- discontent, unhappiness
- pain, agony
- lack of faith, conviction; questioning
- bad situation
- peace, quiet; lack of difficulty
- facility, freedom
- humiliation, shame
- crisis, danger
- complication, predicament
- upset, provocation
-
alarm, apprehension
- fear.
-
difficult or ticklish situation
- fix.
- physical energy, power
- brunt
-
disturbance, trouble
- fuss.
- personal burden
- barrier, obstacle
-
injury; damage
- hurt.
- misunderstanding; fight
- inability, unwillingness to wait
- bother, trouble
- passion, force
- a disturbed mental state
-
troublesome situation
- jam.
- nervous restlessness
- depression, sickness
-
difficulty, predicament
- mess.
- pain, mental or physical
- confused state
- anxious state
- impediment, barrier
-
physical suffering
- pain.
- sticky situation
- want; extreme need, often financial
- precariousness
- physical force, weight
- nagging doubt
- constant motion; discontent
- strictness, exactness
- frightened state
- bad or embarrassing situation
- complication, mess
- worry, anxiety
- pain, due to exertion
- crisis, difficulty
- physical or mental pressure
- anxiety, worry
- trouble, big problem
- annoyance, worry
- unsteadiness
- state of agitation; disturbance
-
Other relevant words
- accentuate,
- aggravate,
- amp,
- amplify,
- baffle,
- beaver,
- complexify,
- consolidate,
- decelerate,
- deepen,
- discommode,
- disoblige,
- disturb,
- embarrass,
- encumber,
- enhance,
- entangle,
- exacerbate,
- foil,
- forestall,
- frustrate,
- fume,
- harden,
- head off,
- heighten,
- incommode,
- intensify,
- laden,
- magnify,
- obviate,
- perplex,
- plod,
- plow,
- plug,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- redouble,
- slacken,
- slog,
- stave off,
- stiffen,
- strengthen,
- strive,
- tauten,
- thwart,
- tighten,
- toughen,
- worsen,
- bang away,
- fidgets,
- annoyance,
- awkwardness,
- carefulness,
- constraint,
- discipline,
- discomfort,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- embarrassment,
- heedfulness,
- inhibition,
- irritation,
- perplexity,
- pressure,
- repression,
- reserve,
- restraint,
- reticence,
- self-command,
- self-consciousness,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-restraint,
- smart,
- strain,
- stress,
- suppression,
- tenseness,
- tension,
- vexation,
- willpower,
- self-mastery.
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Other antonyms
- add,
- aggrandize,
- anger,
- anxiety,
- augment,
- baffle,
- balloon,
- bind,
- blow up,
- boorishness,
- boost,
- build,
- care,
- clumsiness,
- confusion,
- constrain,
- decelerate,
- deepen,
- dilate,
- distress,
- disturb,
- escalate,
- expand,
- fix,
- force,
- frustrate,
- grow,
- impair,
- inflate,
- lengthen,
- mistrust,
- mount,
- prevent,
- prolong,
- raise,
- restlessness,
- restrain,
- rise,
- slacken,
- solicitude,
- strengthen,
- stretch,
- suffering,
- supplement,
- swell,
- toughen,
- wildness,
- hang up,
- retard.
Antonym of the day
most approximately
- Antonyms:
- far, not close.
