difficult

adjectiveverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

//ˈdɪfɪkəlt//

Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.

adjective

1
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
difficult of accomplishment
However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.
There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world, alone.
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.
2
Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.
3
obsoleteUnable or unwilling.
“I hope, madam,” said Jones, “my charming Lady Bellaston will be as difficult to believe anything against one who is so sensible of the many obligations she hath conferred upon him.”

Etymology

From Middle English difficult (ca. 1400), a back-formation from difficulte (whence modern difficulty), from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile. Replaced native Middle English earveþ (“difficult, hard”), from Old English earfoþe (“difficult, laborious, full of hardship”), cognate to German Arbeit (“work”). The verb is from the adjective, partly after Middle French difficulter and its etymon Latin difficultō. Compare difficilitate, difficultate, and Italian difficoltare.

verb

1
obsoleteTo make difficult, hinder; to impede; to perplex.
August 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson their Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions , which had difficulted the peace

Forms

comparative: more difficult
superlative: most difficult
past tense: difficulted
past participle: difficulted
present participle: difficulting
third person singular: difficults

difference · The quality of being different.different · Not the same; exhibiting a difference.differently · In a different way.

difficult · Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.

difficulties · a series of frustrations difficulty · The state of being difficult, or hard to do.dig · To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward…

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