Definition of Difficult

1. Adjective. Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure. "Why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"


2. Adjective. Hard to control. "An unmanageable situation"

Definition of Difficult

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

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

Definition of Difficult

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Difficult

1. 1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labour, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. 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. Synonym: Arduous, painful, crabbed, perplexed, laborious, unaccommodating, troublesome. See Arduous. Origin: From Difficulty. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Difficult

differentiated
differentiated
differentiates
differentiating
differentiation
differentiation
differentiation antigen
differentiator
differently
differentness
differentnesses
differing
differs
difficile
difficult (current term)
difficult (current term)
difficulties
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difficultness
difficulty
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diffidence
diffidences
diffident
diffidently
diffluence
difflugia
difform
difform
diffract

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