What does difficult mean in English? Meaning of difficult definition and abbreviation with examples.
Meaning of "difficult": not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
Adjective
Meaning: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endureExample: 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?Synonyms: difficult
hardAntonyms: easySimilar: ambitious
arduous
awkward
baffling
catchy
challenging
delicate
elusive
embarrassing
fractious
hard-fought
herculean
knotty
nasty
problematic
problematical
rocky
rough
rugged
serious
sticky
tall
thorny
ticklish
tight
touchy
tough
tricky
troublesome
trying
unenviable
vexedAlso see: demanding
effortful
hardMeaning of "difficult": hard to control
Adjective
Meaning: hard to controlExample: a difficult child
an unmanageable situationSynonyms: difficult
unmanageableAntonyms: manageableSimilar: indocile
uncheckable
uncontrollable
ungovernable
unrulyAlso see: defiant
disobedient
intractable
noncompliantAdjective: Hard, not easy, requiring much effort. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone. 2008, Daniel Goleman, Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (ISBN 0307483762), page 199: In adults, the same kind of anger has been studied in people trying to solve a very difficult math problem. Though the tough math problem is very frustrating, there is an active attempt to solve the problem and meet the goal. 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8847: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone.2008, Daniel Goleman, Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (ISBN 0307483762), page 199: In adults, the same kind of anger has been studied in people trying to solve a very difficult math problem. Though the tough math problem is very frustrating, there is an active attempt to solve the problem and meet the goal.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8847: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.(often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome. Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.Synonyms:
troublesome, crucial, tough, problematic, arduous, onerous, demanding, severe, strenuous, ambitious, burdensome, laborious, painful, gargantuan, herculean, bothersome, exacting, formidable, galling, heavy, immense, intricate, irritating, labored, operose, problem, prohibitive, rigid, stiff, titanic, toilsome, trying, unyielding, uphill, wearisome, effortful, challenging, backbreaker, difficile, easier said than done, hard-won, no picnic, not easy, upstream, troublesome, complex, delicate, confusing, abstract, abstruse, baffling, dark, deep, enigmatic, esoteric, formidable, hidden, inexplicable, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, loose, meandering, mysterious, mystical, nice, obscure, obstinate, perplexing, profound, puzzling, rambling, subtle, tangled, thorny, ticklish, unclear, unfathomable, unintelligible, mystifying, problematical, bewildering, confounding, enigmatical, entangled, hard to explain, hard to solve, paradoxical, vexing, troublesome, tough, grim, demanding, intractable, argumentative, boorish, dark, fastidious, finicky, fractious, fussy, impolite, irritable, oafish, obstreperous, perverse, picky, refractory, rigid, rude, tiresome, trying, bearish, hard to please, unaccommodating, unamenable,
Antonyms:
helpful, trivial, facile, effortless, manageable, uncomplicated, friendly, sociable, easy, nice, calm, free, plain, simple, straightforward, manageable, uncomplicated, friendly, sociable, easy, clear, calm, free, plain, simple, straightforward, facile, manageable, uncomplicated, friendly, sociable, easy, nice, calm, free, plain, simple, straightforward,
