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Difficult Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Difficult? [adj] not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" [adj] requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was long, steep, and difficult" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Difficult: ambitious \| arduous \| awkward \| baffling \| catchy \| challenging \| delicate \| embarrassing \| fractious \| hard \| hard-fought \| Herculean \| knotty \| nasty \| problematic \| problematical \| rocky \| rough \| rugged \| serious \| sticky \| stubborn \| tall(a) \| thorny \| ticklish \| tight \| tough \| tricky \| troublesome \| trying \| unenviable \| vexed Related Terms \| Find terms related to Difficult: abstruse \| adverse \| antagonistic \| arduous \| awkward \| baffling \| beyond one \| bloody-minded \| brutal \| burdensome \| cantankerous \| complex \| complicated \| conflicting \| contrary \| counter \| counteractive \| crabbed \| cramp \| critical \| cross-grained \| dark \| delicate \| demanding \| detrimental \| difficile \| effortful \| enigmatical \| exacting \| fastidious \| finical \| finicking \| finicky \| finikin \| formidable \| froward \| fuss-budgety \| fussy \| garbled \| grim \| hairy \| hard \| hard to please \| hard to understand \| hard-earned \| hard-fought \| harmful \| Herculean \| hostile \| ill-behaved \| in opposition \| inimical \| intractable \| intricate \| irascible \| jawbreaking \| jumbled \| knotted \| knotty \| labored \| laborious \| mean \| miserable \| naughty \| nit-picking \| no picnic \| not easy \| obfuscated \| obscure \| obscured \| obstinate \| obstructive \| onerous \| operose \| opposed \| opposing \| opposite \| ornery \| overtechnical \| particular \| pawky \| pernickety \| perplexed \| perplexing \| persnickety \| perverse \| problem \| problematic \| problematical \| profound \| puzzling \| queasy \| recalcitrant \| recondite \| refractory \| rigorous \| rough \| rugged \| scabrous \| scrambled \| sensitive \| set with thorns \| severe \| sinister \| spiny \| squeamish \| steep \| strenuous \| stressful \| stubborn \| stuffy \| sulky \| sullen \| thorny \| ticklish \| toilsome \| tough \| tricky \| troubled \| troublesome \| troubling \| troublous \| trying \| unaccommodating \| uncompromising \| unfavorable \| unmanageable \| untoward \| unyielding \| uphill \| wayward \| wicked \| wretched \| wrongheaded See Also \| demanding \| effortful Difficult In Webster's Dictionary \Dif"ficult\, a. [From {Difficulty}.] 1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. Note: Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the agent; as, a difficult task; hard work is not always difficult work; a difficult operation in surgery; a difficult passage in an author. There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone. --Hawthorne. 2. Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person. Syn: Arduous; painful; crabbed; perplexed; laborious; unaccommodating; troublesome. See {Arduous}. \Dif"ficult\, v. t. To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W. Temple.

Difficult Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Difficult?

[adj] not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
[adj] requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was long, steep, and difficult"

See Also | demanding | effortful

Difficult In Webster's Dictionary

\Dif"fi*cult\, a. [From {Difficulty}.]
1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended
   with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

Note: Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental
      effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to
      be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the
      agent; as, a difficult task; hard work is not always
      difficult work; a difficult operation in surgery; a
      difficult passage in an author.

            There is not the strength or courage left me to
            venture into the wide, strange, and difficult
            world, alone.                      --Hawthorne.

2. Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon;
   austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.

Syn: Arduous; painful; crabbed; perplexed; laborious;
     unaccommodating; troublesome. See {Arduous}.


\Dif"fi*cult\, v. t.
To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W.
Temple.

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