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Dexterous vs Easy - What's the difference?

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Dexterous is a related term of easy.


As adjectives the difference between dexterous and easy

is that dexterous is skillful with one's hands while easy is comfortable; at ease.

As an adverb easy is

in a relaxed or casual manner.

As a noun easy is

something that is easy.

As a verb easy is

to easy-oar (stop rowing).

dexterous

English

Alternative forms

* dextrous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Skillful with one's hands.
  • Skillful in some specific thing
  • * 1719 ,
    • We went frequently out with this boat a-fishing; and as I was most dexterous to catch fish for him, he never went without me.
  • Agile; flexible; able to move fluidly and gracefully.

    • Related terms

    * ambidextrous * dexter * dexterity

    See also

    * adroit * active * expert * skillful * clever * able * ready * apt * handy * versed

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    easy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Comfortable; at ease.
  • * , chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
  • Requiring little skill or effort.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
  • Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
    • Rich people live in easy circumstances.
    an easy chair
  • Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
    • easy''' manners; an '''easy style
  • * Alexander Pope
    • the easy vigour of a line
  • (informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
  • Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
  • * Dryden
    • He gained their easy hearts.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
  • Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
    • The market is easy .

    Synonyms

    * (comfortable) relaxed, relaxing * (not difficult) light, eath * (consenting readily to sex) fast * (requiring little skill or effort) soft, trivial * See also

    Antonyms

    * uneasy, anxious * (requiring little skill or effort) difficult, hard, uneasy, uneath, challenging

    Derived terms

    * easiness * easily * easiness * easy as pie * easy chair * easy on the eyes * easy peasy * free and easy * have it easy * I'm easy * take it easy * uneasily * uneasiness

    Related terms

    * ease

    Adverb

    (er)
  • In a relaxed or casual manner
  • In a manner without strictness or harshness.
  • Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
  • Not difficult, not hard. (rfex)

    • Noun

    (easies)
  • Something that is easy

    • Verb

  • to easy-oar (stop rowing)

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