Difficult

Word DIFFICULT
Character 9
Hyphenation dif fi cult
Pronunciations /ˈdɪfɪkəlt/

Definitions and meanings of "Difficult"

What do we mean by difficult?

Requiring considerable effort or skill; not easy to do or accomplish. adjective

Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying. adjective

Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain. adjective

Not easy to please, satisfy, or manage. adjective

Not easy to persuade or convince; stubborn. adjective

To make difficult; impede.

To perplex; embarrass.

Not easy; requiring or dependent on effort; hard; troublesome; arduous.

Hard to do, perform, or overcome; attended with labor, pains, or opposition; laborious: as, a difficult undertaking.

Hard to please or satisfy; not compliant; unaccommodating; rigid; austere: as, a person of difficult temper.

Hard to persuade or induce; stubborn in yielding; obstinate as to opinion: as, he was difficult to convince.

Hard to understand or solve; perplexing; puzzling: as, a difficult passage in an author; a difficult question or problem.

Synonyms Difficult, Hard, Arduous (see arduous), laborious, toilsome; obscure, knotty.

To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. transitive verb

Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. adjective

Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn. adjective

Hard, not easy, requiring much effort adjective

Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome; eg. said of a person, a horse, etc. adjective

To make difficult; to impede; to perplex. verb

Hard to control adjective

To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

Someone who is unreasonably stubborn and uncompromising Urban Dictionary

Something not worth doing. Urban Dictionary

Adjective. euphemism for insisting on condomless sex, usually with a prostitute. Related to spitzer, sense 3. Urban Dictionary

The future tense of the state of a thing being difficult. Urban Dictionary

A difficult situation Urban Dictionary

The awkwardly worded antonym to 'Easy peasy lemon squeezy' meant to express that something was very difficultly done. Urban Dictionary

The reason to train like Kyriackos Grizzly, and the only valid reason to train. Urban Dictionary

Purposely wasting time in order to achieve the same goal, but slower. Urban Dictionary

When applied to a woman, difficult relates to the idea that women are impractical for having high expectations for themselves and others. When we call a woman difficult, we could be saying: “She’s asking me to challenge myself and I’m not comfortable with a woman doing that”. Words like decisive or determined are more positive ways to describe female colleagues. Urban Dictionary

The process of making it more difficult Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Difficult

The word "difficult" in example sentences

It is of course extremely difficult to collect satisfactory data on such a point, —difficult to reach the men, to get trustworthy testimony, and to gauge that testimony by any generally acceptable criterion of success. ❋ William Edward Burghardt (1903)

The uncertain light made her expression difficult to read, but Odosse thought she saw pain there—a great deal more pain than belonged in such a young face. ❋ Liane Merciel (2010)

KING: Jeanette, what does the term difficult mean to you? ❋ Unknown (2008)

How freakin difficult is it to drop some food and water in there? ❋ Unknown (2005)

Felipe Massa did his best to make Hamilton's clinching of the title difficult as he took pole today for the Brazilian GP. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Throughout the questioning, Mr. Moreno, 43, adhered to his testimony, expressing shock that the woman had leveled charges of rape against him despite his best efforts to be supportive during what he described as a "difficult" time for her. ❋ Tamer El-Ghobashy (2011)

Among other stocks, Anglo-Dutch consumer-products group Unilever gained 2.7% in London, after reporting a 10% increase in first-half profit despite what it termed "difficult markets." ❋ Barbara Kollmeyer (2011)

BLITZER: Right now, President Obama's clearly rethinking his response to what he calls a difficult chapter in America's history. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He clearly is now rethinking his response to what he calls a difficult chapter in America's history. ❋ Unknown (2009)

David Paterson and his wife faced reporters today in Albany, revealing they both had affairs during what they call a difficult period a few years back. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While admitting that there are still what he called difficult times in Iraq, the president said there are quote, signs that give us hope. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He takes stock of what he calls a difficult year in Iraq and says he's open to ideas on how to move forward. ❋ Unknown (2006)

MATTINGLY: Patti Davis, the first child of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, occasionally starred in TV commercials with her dad but later she wrote a book about what she called a difficult childhood. ❋ Unknown (2004)

War is never an easy or what I call difficult-free operation and there are always surprises. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It also pointed out what it described as the difficult working conditions of warders. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The Democratic Party on Monday congratulated South African teachers for what they managed to achieve under what it called difficult circumstances. ❋ Unknown (1998)

The barbarians were not "Germans" (a term difficult to define), they were of very mixed stocks which, if we go by speech (a bad guide to race) were some of them Germanic, some Slav, some even Mongol, some Berber, some of the old unnamed races: the Picts, for instance, and the dark men of the extreme North and West. ❋ Hilaire Belloc (1911)

The jailer couldn't keep me under discipline; I was what they call a difficult prisoner. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)

[I don't know] why [Lisa] is [being difficult] all she have to do is listen. ❋ Gerard Irick (2009)

[Quantum Physics] is difficult. ❋ Dano Magnum (2006)

[Kristen] said that she liked him, that she did not think he was difficult. He "would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe...I have a way of dealing with that...I'd be like listen dude, you really want [the sex]? [You know what I mean]." ❋ Vince Clortho (2008)

That would [difficultate] the process. [difficult] [difficulty] ❋ Cccpeople (2016)

When I found myself in a whore house with no [rubbers] i realized i was in a difficultation. I realized I was in a difficultation when I found only $9 in my [wallet] and a [lap dance] costs $10. ❋ The Original Bigworm (2008)

"That [claims] [process] was [difficult difficult lemon difficult]" ❋ Therane08 (2017)

"[What do] you [train] for? "For the difficult" ❋ Lucisama (2022)

[Old School] [Runescape] is more difficult than Runescape 3 because you [afk] for longer. ❋ Deepsking (2018)

He noticed that his female [colleague] didn’t live to please others. Instead of labelling her a ‘[difficult woman]’, he [respected] her ability to say no. ❋ Sexism Education (2022)

Because I make [her's] life so [difficult] I [done] difficultized her life ❋ Redbranch98 (2008)

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