Dictionary Definition
difficult adj
1 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 is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" [syn:
hard] [ant: easy]
2 requiring much effort and trouble; "the
mountain climb was long, steep, and difficult"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈdɪfɪkəl̩t/
Synonyms
Translations
hard, not easy
- Arabic: ,
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: qıyın
- Czech: obtížný
- Dutch: lastig, moeilijk
- Esperanto: malfacila
- Finnish: vaikea, hankala
- French: difficile
- German: schwer, schwierig
- Greek: δύσκολος (dúskolos)
- Gujarati: કઠિન (kaṭhina)
- Hebrew: ,
- Hindi: विकट (vikaṭa), मुश्किल (muśkila)
- Ido: desfacila
- Interlingua: difficile
- Italian: difficile
- Japanese: 難しい (むずかしい, muzukashii)
- Korean: 어렵다 (eolyeopda)
- Kurdish: , ,
- Latin: difficilis
- Latvian: sarežģīts
- Norwegian: vanskelig
- Old English: earfoþe
- Polish: trudny
- Portuguese: difícil
- Punjabi: ਕਠਿਨ (kaṭhin)
- Romanian: greu, difícil, anevoios, complicat
- Russian: трудный (trúdnyj)
- Sanskrit: अलभ्य (alabhya)
- Scottish Gaelic: doirbh, mì-fhurasda, cruaidh, trom, duilich
- Spanish: difícil
- Swedish: svår
- Telugu: కఠినమైన (kaThinamaina), కష్టమైన (kashTamaina)
- Thai: (yark)
- Turkish: zor, güç
- Welsh: anodd
Extensive Definition
Difficulty may refer to:
- a problem
- the difficulty level in a video game
- Countermajoritarian difficulty
- Facility, Easy
difficult in French: Difficulté
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Herculean, abstruse, adverse, antagonistic, arduous, awkward, baffling, beyond one,
bloody-minded, brutal,
burdensome, cantankerous, complex, complicated, conflicting, contrary, counter, counteractive, crabbed, cramp, critical, cross-grained,
dark, delicate, demanding, detrimental, difficile, effortful, enigmatical, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, formidable, froward, fuss-budgety, fussy, garbled, grim, hairy, hard, hard to please, hard to
understand, hard-earned, hard-fought, harmful, hostile, ill-behaved, in
opposition, inimical,
intractable,
intricate, irascible, jawbreaking, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, miserable, naughty, nit-picking, no picnic,
not easy, obfuscated,
obscure, obscured, obstinate, obstructive, onerous, operose, opposed, opposing, opposite, ornery, overtechnical, particular, pawky, pernickety, perplexed, perplexing, persnickety, perverse, problem, problematic, problematical, profound, puzzling, queasy, recalcitrant, recondite, refractory, rigorous, rough, rugged, scabrous, scrambled, sensitive, set with thorns,
severe, sinister, spiny, squeamish, steep, strenuous, stressful, stubborn, stuffy, sulky, sullen, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, tough, tricky, troubled, troublesome, troubling, troublous, trying, unaccommodating,
uncompromising,
unfavorable,
unmanageable,
untoward, unyielding, uphill, wayward, wicked, wretched, wrongheaded