What does DIFFICULT mean?

Definitions for DIFFICULT
ˈdɪf ɪˌkʌlt, -kəltdif·fi·cult

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. difficult, hardadjective

    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?"

  2. unmanageable, difficultadjective

    hard to control

    "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"

Wiktionary

  1. difficultadjective

    hard, not easy, requiring much effort

  2. difficultadjective

    hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome; eg. said of a person, a horse, etc.

  3. Etymology: From difficulty, from difficultee, from difficulté, from difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis, from dis- + facilis; see difficile.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. DIFFICULTadjective

    Etymology: difficilis, Latin.

    It is difficult in the eyes of this people. Zachar.

Wikipedia

  1. Difficult

    Difficult is the fourth single from French-American recording artist Uffies debut album, Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans. The single was produced by Uffie's label-mate and friend SebastiAn and was released by Ed Banger Records, Because Music and Elektra Records on October 18, 2010. Remixes by SebastiAn and Azari & III were included in the release.

ChatGPT

  1. difficult

    Difficult refers to something that requires much effort or skill to accomplish, understand, or deal with. It can also describe a situation or task that presents challenges or complications. Additionally, it may denote someone or something that is hard to please, handle, or manage.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Difficultadjective

    hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous

  2. Difficultadjective

    hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person

  3. Difficultverb

    to render difficult; to impede; to perplex

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Difficult

    dif′i-kult, adj. not easy: hard to be done: requiring labour and pains: hard to please: not easily persuaded.—adv. Diff′icultly.—n. Diff′iculty, laboriousness: obstacle: objection: that which cannot be easily understood or believed: embarrassment of affairs: a quarrel. [The adj. was formed from difficulty, in place of the old form difficile. Fr. difficulté—L. difficultas = difficilitasdifficilisdif (= dis), neg., and facilis, easy.]

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'DIFFICULT' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #425

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'DIFFICULT' in Written Corpus Frequency: #457

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'DIFFICULT' in Adjectives Frequency: #44

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DIFFICULT in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DIFFICULT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of DIFFICULT in a Sentence

  1. Michael Leuning:

    Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

  2. Carrie Lam:

    For the government to resort to measures that will appease the violent rioters, I dont think that is the solution, until and unless we tackle the violence and put an end to it, it is very difficult to continue the political dialogue we have done.

  3. Justin Rose:

    It is very difficult to face questions all the time about being the best player not to win a major, there’s enough pressure trying to win these without trying to justify your great play and your billing in the game.

  4. White House:

    We respect Senator McCain's service to our nation and he and his family are in our prayers during this difficult time.

  5. Wash Westmoreland:

    We knew she'd be able to master the difficult transitions and projecting the high intelligence and going through the emotional rawness of the end, we knew she was the one.

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