Meaning of difficult | Babel Free

Definitions

1. difficult, hard, tough, challenging, rough, tricky, trying, arduous, testing
2. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
3. Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
   often
4. unlikely (i.e. improbable)
5. difícil.
6. Unable or unwilling.
   obsolete
7. awkward (e.g. situation or position)
8. Requiring considerable effort or skill; not easy to do or accomplish: "To entertain is far more difficult than to enlighten" (Anthony Burgess).
9. rocky, bumpy (e.g. start, road)
10. Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying: fell upon difficult times.
11. Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain: a difficult puzzle.
12. Not easy to please, satisfy, or manage: a difficult child.
13. Not easy to persuade or convince; stubborn.
14. not easy to do; requiring effort: a difficult job.
15. not easy to understand or solve; intricate: a difficult problem.
16. hard to deal with; troublesome: a difficult child.
17. not easily convinced, pleased, or satisfied: a difficult audience.

Equivalents

Examples

“difficult of accomplishment”

“However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.”

“There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world, alone.”

“In adults, the same kind of anger has been studied in people trying to solve a very difficult math problem. Though the tough math problem is very frustrating, there is an active attempt to solve the problem and meet the goal.”

“Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.”

“Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.”

““I hope, madam,” said Jones, “my charming Lady Bellaston will be as difficult to believe anything against one who is so sensible of the many obligations she hath conferred upon him.””

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