The body
Synonyms for ease
Synonyms for ease: comfort and simplicity. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for ease
- comfortverb, in the sense "lessen pain or discomfort"
- simplicitynoun, in the sense "freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort"
Two senses of ease, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
lessen pain or discomfort
Ease the pain in your legs.
ease in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The physical therapist recommended a stretch to ease the tightness in his lower back.
- In her letter she thanked the nurse for helping ease the discomfort in her swollen ankle.
How it behaves: In this sense, ease usually takes a noun naming pain or discomfort as its direct object, as in ease the swelling, and appears in neutral or clinical registers.
The true synonym
comfort
Same sentence, swapped: Comfort the pain in your legs.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for ease in the sentence quoted.
- facilitate
- flow
- gentle
Opposites, in this sense
aggravate, worsen and intensify reverse ease as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of ease takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- aggravate
- worsen
- intensify
freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
The ease of the recipe surprised everyone in the class.
The true synonym
simplicity
Same sentence, swapped: The simplicity of the recipe surprised everyone in the class.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- relief
- rest
- difficulty
Where ease turns up in the game
ease is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where ease is the trap
- atmospherenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is air, in the sense "a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing", and ease is one of the three tiles that lose.
- restnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is balance, in the sense "something left after other parts have been taken away", and ease is on the board beside it.
- serveverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is attend, in the sense "work for, or be a servant to", with ease sitting one tile away.
Play ease
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ease reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other the body words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ease carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.