'Difficult' definitions:

Definition of 'difficult'

From: WordNet
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"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" [syn: difficult, hard] [ant: easy]
adjective
Hard to control; "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation" [syn: unmanageable, difficult] [ant: manageable]

Definition of 'Difficult'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Difficult'

From: GCIDE
  • Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, v. t. To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]

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