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 Definitions for difficult: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, v. t.
To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W.
Temple.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Difficult \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.
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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.
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There is not the strength or courage left me to
venture into the wide, strange, and difficult
world, alone. --Hawthorne.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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difficult
adj 1: 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?" [syn: hard] [ant:
easy]
2: requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was
long, steep, and difficult"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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134 Moby Thesaurus words for "difficult":
Herculean, 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, 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
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difficult adj. Hard to do or accomplish; demanding considerable effort or skill; arduous: "To entertain is far more difficult than to enlighten"
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