NOT EASY

Difficulty

Adjective: difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; more easily said than done, easier said than done.

Crosswords: NOT EASY

Hey, that's not easy, what I just did! (Sneakers; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, and Walter F. Parkes.)

You know, it's not easy, being a father. (The Mummy Returns; writing credit: Stephen Sommers)

Not easy. (Lady Jane; writing credit: Chris Bryant; David Edgar)

It's not easy, you know, talking to you sometimes. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Sometimes it's not easy. (Majo no takkyubin; writing credit: Jack Fletcher; Eiko Kadono)

Not easy (Someone I love, Someone who loves me; performing artist: Dion)

We're like crystal, it's not easy (Crystal; performing artist: New Order)

It really was not easy (SKY; performing artist: Sonique)

It's not easy being me (Blinded (When I See You); performing artist: THIRD EYE BLIND)

She can take what I dish out, and that's not easy, (She's a Lady; performing artist: Tom Jones)

It's Not Easy Being Green (1994)

Rodney Dangerfield: It's Not Easy Bein' Me (1986)

It's Not Easy (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Way of the Fussbudget Is Not Easy (Peanuts Parade, No 29) (reference)

• You're an Ace, Snoopy (Selected Cartoons from the Way of the Fussbudget Is Not Easy, Vol 1) (reference)

• God's Purification: Not Easy, Part I (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Not easy to fit in. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was not easy for him to hide this commotion from Cosette, but love is a talent, and Marius succeeded.

It is not easy to express the joy I was in upon the unexpected hope of once more seeing my beloved country, and the dear pledges I had left in it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The ketogenic diet is not easy to maintain, as it requires strict adherence to an unusual and limited range of foods. (references)

Living with a serious disease is not easy. People with cancer and those who care about them face many problems and challenges. (references)

Children with disorders of vocal abuse and misuse are often the most difficult to treat because it is not easy for them to change their vocal behaviors. (references)

Business

As it is with the rest of Mexico, the market for commercial fishing equipment in Baja California is not easy to calculate. (references)

Thus, while the market is not easy, there are good possibilities overall to sell a product if it fits well in niche lines. (references)

However, because rather complicated installation of software by the audience themselves was required, and because it was not easy to locate the programs, internet broadcast did not become popular until lately. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

The Dutch market is not easy to conquer for U.S. manufacturers. (references)

Ukraine

According to industry insiders from both local and U.S. companies operating in Ukraine, the agricultural market is not easy to access. (references)

Trade

China

Import licenses are not easy to obtain. (references)

Travel

Chad

It is not easy to find local English speakers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "NOT EASY": he is not easy to get on with. Additional references.

Chinese 

不�" (difficult, not easy to do sth.). (various references)

Czech

je to s ním tìžké (he is not easy to get on with). (various references)

Hungarian

nem könnyű vele kijönni (to be not easy to deal with), nehéz vele kijönni (to be not easy to deal with). (various references)

Pig Latin

otnay easyay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: astony, atones, stoney, yentas.

-2 letters: aeons, antes, antsy, atone, atony, etnas, nasty, nates, neats, nosey, notes, oaten, onset, santo, seton, stane, steno, stoae, stone, stony, tansy, toeas, tones, toney, tynes, yeans, yeast, yenta.

-3 letters: aeon, anes, ante, ants, ates, ayes, east, easy, eats, eons, etas, etna, eyas, naos, nays, neat, nest, nets, noes.

+1 letter: anolytes, bayonets.

+2 letters: asyndeton, attorneys, autodynes, barytones, monastery, nonsteady, oysterman, pantyhose, syncopate.

+3 letters: antonymies, arytenoids, asyndetons, copayments, corybantes, isocyanate, nematocyst, obeisantly, oxygenates, personalty, resonantly, stationery, syncopated, syncopates, tyrosinase, wyandottes.

+4 letters: actinomyces, anonymities, antileprosy, antiobesity, chatoyances, choanocytes, countryseat, cutaneously, designatory, endosteally, honeyeaters, hypertonias, isocyanates, melanocytes, mycetozoans, nematocysts, nonpayments, observantly, obstinately, overstaying, oxygenators, personality, questionary, seasonality, sectionally, semitonally, spontaneity, stenography, synaptosome, syncopative, tautonymies, tenaciously, treasonably, trypanosome, tyrosinases, unseaworthy.