facility

Roget category 705

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.4. Antagonism
›› 5.4.1. Conditional antagonism

#705. Facility

noun

facility, ease — easiness etc. adj. — capability — feasibility etc. (practicability) 470 — flexibility, pliancy etc. 324 — smoothness etc. 255.
plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing — mere child's play, holiday task — cinch [U.S.].
smooth water, fair wind — smooth royal road — clear coast, clear stage — tabula rasa [Lat.] — full play etc. (freedom) 748.
disencumbrance^†, disentanglement — deoppilation^† — permission etc. 760.
simplicity, lack of complication.

verb

be easy etc. adj. — go on smoothly, run smoothly — have full play etc. n. — go on all fours, run on all fours — obey the helm, work well.
flow with the stream, swim with the stream, drift with the stream, go with the stream, flow with the tide, drift with the tide — see one's way — have all one's own way, have the game in one's own hands — walk over the course, win at a canter — make light of, make nothing of, make no bones of.
be at home in, make it look easy, do it with one's eyes closed, do it in one's sleep etc. (skillful) 698.
render easy etc. adj. — facilitate, smooth, ease — popularize — lighten, lighten the labor — free, clear — disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle, disengage — deobstruct^†, unclog, extricate, unravel — untie the knot, cut the knot — disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate^† — humor etc. (aid) 707 — lubricate etc. 332 — relieve etc. 834.
leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open — give the reins to, give full play, give full swing — make way for — open the door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground, clear the ground, open the way, open the path, open the road — pave the way, bridge over — permit etc. 760.

adjective

easy, facile — feasible etc. (practicable) 470 — easily managed, easily accomplished — within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to.
manageable, wieldy — towardly^†, tractable — submissive — yielding, ductile — suant^† — pliant etc. (soft) 324 — glib, slippery — smooth etc. 255 — on friction wheels, on velvet.
unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed — exonerated — unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled — unrestrained etc. (free) 748 — at ease, light.
[able to do easily] at home with — quite at home — in one's element, in smooth water — skillful etc. 698 — accustomed etc. 613.

adverb

easily etc. adj. — readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed.

phrase

touch and go.

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