difficult

[Dif·fi*cult]

If something is difficult, it requires physical effort or brain power to complete, like climbing Mount Everest, a difficult journey.

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

Adjective
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 i

Adjective S.
requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was long, steep, and difficult"


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

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

v. t.
To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.


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. &hand; 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.
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.

Difficult

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

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

To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.

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Usage Examples

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

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Other Usage Examples

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

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