What is a good antonym for 多難 (many difficulties)?


I'm looking for a proper antonym for the word 多難 in a context where it's
meaning is 'many difficulties'. Would for example the adverb 難なく be
appropriate? It translates to 'easily' according to my dictionary.

I've tried searching the web and I'm certainly not happy with the antonym 多幸
provided on this page:
[thesaurus.weblio.jp](http://thesaurus.weblio.jp/antonym/content/%E5%A4%9A%E9%9B%A3)

Ultimately I'd want to use the anotonym to reverse the meaning of the news
headline 「拡大欧州、多難なスタート」 which roughly translates to "Expanding Europe – Start
with many difficulties".




多難{たなん} literally means "lots of difficulties". There are a few different ways
of producing a potential "antonym", depending on what kind of meaning you're
looking for. 多幸{たこう} literally means "lots of happinesses / good fortune", and
this is often seen as the closest to an antonym. Other possibilities include
無難{ぶなん} "no difficulty", as noted by l'électeur earlier, or 小難{しょうなん} "minor
difficulty, not much of a difficulty", as noted by フレヂィ in a comment above.
Another possible antonym would conceivably be 少難{しょうなん} "few difficulties",
but this seems to be a very rare word, [appearing in only a few
books](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%E5%B0%91%E9%9B%A3%E3%81%AA%22&tbm=bks),
and this does not appear to be recognized as a valid Japanese word by most
dictionaries.

All that said, simply using the antonym supplied by the thesaurus would seem
to produce the desired reversal in meaning:

  * 「拡大欧州、多難なスタート」→ "European expansion off to a rocky start"

  * 「拡大欧州、多幸なスタート」→ "European expansion off to an auspicious start"




多難{たなん} literally means "lots of difficulties". There are a few different ways
of producing a potential "antonym", depending on what kind of meaning you're
looking for. 多幸{たこう} literally means "lots of happinesses / good fortune", and
this is often seen as the closest to an antonym. Other possibilities include
無難{ぶなん} "no difficulty", as noted by l'électeur earlier, or 小難{しょうなん} "minor
difficulty, not much of a difficulty", as noted by フレヂィ in a comment above.
Another possible antonym would conceivably be 少難{しょうなん} "few difficulties",
but this seems to be a very rare word, [appearing in only a few
books](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%E5%B0%91%E9%9B%A3%E3%81%AA%22&tbm=bks),
and this does not appear to be recognized as a valid Japanese word by most
dictionaries.

All that said, simply using the antonym supplied by the thesaurus would seem
to produce the desired reversal in meaning:

  * 「拡大欧州、多難なスタート」→ "European expansion off to a rocky start"

  * 「拡大欧州、多幸なスタート」→ "European expansion off to an auspicious start"

