no picnic (adjective) arduous: difficult, hard to endure
Sinonime: allay,
alleviate,
ameliorate,
assuage,
attenuate, buoy,
change,
comfort, cut down,
decrease,
dilute, disburden,
disencumber,
ease,
empty,
eradicate, extenuate,
facilitate,
free, jettison,
lessen, levitate, make less, make lighter,
mitigate,
mollify, pour out,
put off,
reduce,
relieve,
remove,
shift,
take, take a load off,
thin, throw out, unburden, unload, uplight, upraise
Antonime: burden, weigh down