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English Dictionary: difficult	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for difficult
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
difficult adj 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?" Synonym(s): difficult, hard Antonym(s): easy hard to control; "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation" Synonym(s): unmanageable, difficult Antonym(s): manageable
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, v. t. To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W. Temple.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Difficult \Dif"ficult\, a. [From {Difficulty}.] 1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. 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. 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. Syn: Arduous; painful; crabbed; perplexed; laborious; unaccommodating; troublesome. See {Arduous}.