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

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DIFFICULTadjective

   Etymology: difficilis, Latin.

   1. Hard; not easy; not facil.

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

   2. Troublesome; vexatious.3. Hard to please; peevish; morose.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 = difficilitas—difficilis—dif (= 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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How to pronounce Difficult?

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How to say Difficult in sign language?

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. Mark Leeper:

   Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

2. Mehria Ghafoori:

   It was so difficult to leave my family behind and come, but I had no choice.

3. Central Police Department:

   Instead of showing the strength and resilience of our community during this difficult time, Mr. Spell has chosen to embarrass us for his own self-promotion, this is not an issue over religious liberty, and its not about politics.

4. Biennial Director Jorge Alfonso:

   Not even in the most difficult moments have we ever given up on staging one of these kind of events, the slogan of this year's edition, 'the construction of the possible', is related to our ideal that a better world is possible.

5. Customs Department Director-General Somchai Sujjapongse:

   After these two consecutive big busts ... the transnational crime networks must realize it is getting increasingly difficult to send their shipment past Thailand, but I think they will try to come up with the more complicated means, so we will have already prepared the measures to (tackle the issue).

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Difficult
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Difficult
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Difficult
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difficult
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Difficult
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Difficult
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Difficult