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difficult
[ dif-i-kuhlt, -kuhlt ]
adjective
- not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard:
a difficult job.
Synonyms: arduous
Antonyms: easy
- hard to understand or solve:
a difficult problem.
Synonyms: knotty, involved, intricate
Antonyms: simple
- hard to deal with or get on with:
a difficult pupil.
- hard to please or satisfy:
a difficult employer.
Synonyms: fussy, finical, particular
- hard to persuade or induce; stubborn:
a difficult old man.
Synonyms: uncompromising, obdurate
- disadvantageous; trying; hampering:
The operation was performed under the most difficult conditions.
- fraught with hardship, especially financial hardship:
We saw some difficult times during the depression years.
difficult
/ ˈdɪfɪkəlt /
adjective
- not easy to do; requiring effort
a difficult job
- not easy to understand or solve; intricate
a difficult problem
- hard to deal with; troublesome
a difficult child
- not easily convinced, pleased, or satisfied
a difficult audience
- full of hardships or trials
difficult times ahead
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Derived Forms
- ˈdifficultly, adverb
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Other Words From
- diffi·cultly adverb
- non·diffi·cult adjective
- quasi-diffi·cult adjective
- quasi-diffi·cultly adverb
- super·diffi·cult adjective
- super·diffi·cultly adverb
- un·diffi·cult adjective
- un·diffi·cultly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of difficult1
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Word History and Origins
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
The choice between freedom and fear is not difficult when seen with perspective.
Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.
That makes it incredibly difficult to determine the effects of airstrikes, for example.
Being the first to declare feelings is incredibly difficult.
White rappers are always difficult to comprehend, difficult to deal with.
In the early stages of chronic nephritis, when diagnosis is difficult, it is usually normal.
It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.
It was difficult to describe—a little sterner, a little wilder, a faint emphasis of the barbaric peering through it.
Ajoutez cecy, s'il vous plaist, la grande difficult qu'il y a de tirer d'eux les mots mesmes qu'ils ont.
Numbers have dribbled back from firing line and cannot be collected in this difficult country.
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