What's the difference between easy and straightforward?

Easy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint
  • (v. t.) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.
  • (v. t.) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.
  • (v. t.) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.
  • (v. t.) Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing.
  • (v. t.) Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
  • (v. t.) Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.
  • (v. t.) Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
  • (v. t.) Moderate; sparing; frugal.
  • (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It wasn’t an easy decision because I was born in Kingston, Jamaica,” acknowledged Aarons.
  • (2) This is an easy, safe, and rapid alternative for the emergent treatment of superior vena caval syndrome.
  • (3) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
  • (4) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
  • (5) The method of sonicating L3 and Mf fragment antigens used in this study is simple, and its results are easy to observe.
  • (6) The schedule proposed is easy to use and reproducible.
  • (7) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
  • (8) These high Danish rates seem to reflect the true prevalence and incidence in the less serious types of progressive muscular dystrophy, probably because the Danish health system with free medical care and easy access to specialized hospital departments makes it possible to identify all cases of progressive muscular dystrophy.
  • (9) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
  • (10) These plasmids allow expression of native or truncated forms of the enzyme and easy purification of the products.
  • (11) This approach permits easy preparation of input data on the dimensions of the blocks and their positions in a 3-D arrangement.
  • (12) Digital respirosonography provides an easy way to assess lung sound amplitudes, frequencies and timing over several breaths.
  • (13) Ultrasonic fragmentation through the pars plana is a quick and easy method for relieving the condition.
  • (14) Chemically induced transformation of the stable heteroploid cell line (F1706) was manifested by an easy to read focal alteration.
  • (15) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
  • (16) In conclusion, the indications are not often easy and is usually the object of a study of each case individually.
  • (17) "It is very easy to see somebody get killed over this issue," Marijuana Industry Group Director Michael Elliott testified last month.
  • (18) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
  • (19) The teflon dish is re-usable, resistant to sterilization procedures, and easy to assemble.
  • (20) Protriptyline also widened the ventricular echo zone and allowed easy induction of long runs of ventricular tachycardia.

Straightforward


Definition:

  • (a.) Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.
  • (adv.) In a straightforward manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
  • (2) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
  • (3) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
  • (4) On examples from their own practice the authors draw attention to the that the diagnosis and treatment of this disease is not always as straightforward as might appear from the literature.
  • (5) The IAP technique was straightforward to perform, it yielded quick results, and was highly reproducible, provided that a standardised short fixation period of two and a half hours was used.
  • (6) Modern anesthetic and surgical techniques have made the operation much safer and more straightforward.
  • (7) The fact that the leave campaign are getting things as straightforward as this wrong should call into judgment the bigger argument about leaving the EU.” He said out campaigners were trying to persuade people to vote for Brexit solely on the back of an issue “that is not true”.
  • (8) If the observed odds ratios in the data follow this pattern, the model-predicted odds ratios will be accurate, and the meaning of the odds ratio for each risk factor will be straightforward.
  • (9) The stomach must need some respite from the cold shock of missing relatively straightforward opportunities.
  • (10) An intradermal skin test with 1 : 100 dilution of 2-5 per cent thiopentone was positive and subsequent anaesthesia without thiopentone was straightforward.
  • (11) Inside the building, the gallery spaces are curiously straightforward.
  • (12) A different, more straightforwardly anti-cuts message could perhaps consolidate a left-vote in a PR system, but is unlikely to work for a party seeking to lead.
  • (13) Written partnership agreements, employment contracts and related documents may seem to complicate what appears to be a straightforward arrangement, and can make a close relationship somewhat more impersonal.
  • (14) Use of the proportional-response photon counter makes the measurement straightforward and more accurate.
  • (15) A straightforward information-processing model describes the mental processes that are used in deciding whether a sentence is true or false of an accompanying picture.
  • (16) The surest sign of malign intention in financial dealings is a failure to be straightforward about the fees.
  • (17) With attention to detail, prosthesis sizing is straightforward using intraoperative determination of corporeal girth and total corporeal length.
  • (18) However the advent of computer-based image analysers offers a more straightforward, although less direct, method of making such measurements.
  • (19) A straightforward decision-making process was found among males, but more complicated influences exist for females.
  • (20) Woodward maintained that it would be simple to thrash out a "straightforward commercial settlement".