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

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Wiktionary2.0 / 1 vote

  1. difficultadjective

    Synonyms:
    cumbersome, hard, burdensome

  2. difficultadjective

    hard, not easy, requiring much effort

    Synonyms:
    cumbersome, burdensome, hard

  3. difficultadjective

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

    Synonyms:
    burdensome, hard, cumbersome

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.7 / 3 votes

  1. difficult

    Arduous (Latin arduus, steep) signifies primarily so steep and lofty as to be difficult of ascent, and hence applies to that which involves great and sustained exertion and ordinarily for a lofty aim; great learning can only be won by arduous toil. Hard applies to anything that resists our endeavors as a scarcely penetrable mass resists our physical force. Anything is hard that involves tax and strain whether of the physical or mental powers. Difficult is not used of that which merely taxes physical force; a dead lift is called hard rather than difficult; breaking stone on the road would be called hard rather than difficult work; that is difficult which involves skill, sagacity, or address, with or without a considerable expenditure of physical force; a geometrical problem may be difficult to solve, a tangled skein to unravel; a mountain difficult to ascend. Hard may be active or passive; a thing may be hard to do or hard to bear. Arduous is always active. That which is laborious or toilsome simply requires the steady application of labor or toil till accomplished; toilsome is the stronger word. That which is onerous (Latin onus, a burden) is mentally burdensome or oppressive. Responsibility may be onerous even when it involves no special exertion.

    Synonyms:
    arduous, exhausting, hard, laborious, onerous, severe, toilsome, trying

    Antonyms:
    easy, facile, light, pleasant, slight, trifling, trivial

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 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?"

    Synonyms:
    severe, voiceless, arduous, grueling, tough, toilsome, concentrated, heavy, difficult, laborious, hard, gruelling, intemperate, knockout, punishing, unvoiced, operose, backbreaking, surd, strong, unmanageable

    Antonyms:
    uncomplicated, cushy, casual, hands-down, soft, clean, effortless, unproblematic, smooth, simple, easy, painless, simplified, elementary, user-friendly, easygoing

  2. unmanageable, difficultadjective

    hard to control

    "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"

    Synonyms:
    uncorrectable, uncontrollable, hard, unwieldy, unmanageable, difficult

    Antonyms:
    easy, hands-down, cushy, clean, simple, uncomplicated, user-friendly, elementary, casual, unproblematic, painless, smooth, easygoing, simplified, soft, effortless

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ardouos

    Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. difficultadjective

    Synonyms:
    hard, arduous. herculean, up-hill, beset with difficulty

  2. difficultadjective

    Synonyms:
    austere, rigid, unyielding, unaccommodating

  3. difficultadjective

    Synonyms:
    fastidious, dainty, squeamish, hard to please

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. difficultadjective

    Synonyms:
    arduous, onerous, complicated, intricate, hard, uncompliant, intractable, perverse, fastidious, exacting

    Antonyms:
    facile, light, easy

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How to use Difficult in a sentence?

  1. Francis Lawrence:

    It was actually quite difficult to find environments that felt like they were underground, that didn't have a lot of doors, that didn't have a lot of windows and a lot of vents and things like that, and this felt like it could be underground with the supports and the vaults and all of that.

  2. Ken Clarke:

    What you can't do is leave them in a camp in Syria being even more radicalised... until they disperse themselves through the world and make their way back here, i think the Germans, the French and ourselves have got to work out how to deal with this difficult and, I accept, dangerous problem.

  3. President Putin:

    Well, let's take St. Petersburg Economic Forum, for instance, there were over 500 American businessmen, high-ranking, high-level ones. I don't even remember the last names of each and every one of them. Well, do you remember -- do you think that we try to collect compromising material on each and every single one of them ? Well, it's difficult to imagine an utter nonsense of a bigger scale than this. Well, please, just disregard these issues and don't think about this anymore again.

  4. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla:

    Iran has now sent a clear message that they are tilting to a more radical, more conservative position, nevertheless, Iran is not in a position to become more radical ... because the region is becoming very difficult and very dangerous.

  5. One Western diplomat:

    We spent all of yesterday pushing The Iranians, they are not moving. The Iranians's very difficult. The Iranians is not going well. We are really at a point where The Iranians need to decide whether they want this or not.


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