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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Builder, Word Explorer
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
hard to accomplish or understand.
Getting everyone to agree was a difficult task.His mother helped him with the more difficult math problems.Shakespeare's prose can be difficult.- synonyms:
- arduous, complex, hard, knotty, laborious, thorny, tough, troublesome, uphill
- antonyms:
- easy, effortless, elementary, simple, straightforward
- similar words:
- ambitious, demanding, formidable, onerous, severe, stiff, strenuous, tall, tricky
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| definition 2: |
hard to please or manage.
Her boss is a difficult person.Her mother says she was difficult as a teenager.- synonyms:
- hard, intractable, troublesome
- antonyms:
- accommodating, easy, manageable
- similar words:
- contrary, demanding, obstinate, perverse, problem, stubborn, temperamental
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| definition 3: |
filled with or causing hardship or pain.
They had a difficult life back in the old country.She had a difficult labor with her first child.- synonyms:
- arduous, hard, rough, tough, troublesome, uphill
- antonyms:
- convenient, easy, painless
- similar words:
- formidable, ill
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abstract, awkward, cumbersome, fastidious, finicky, grueling, herculean, impossible, inconvenient, laborious, lawless, messy, painful, querulous, rough, rugged, sore, sorry, sticky, stiff, tight, touchy, tough, trying, wayward |
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| derivation: |
difficultly (adv.) |
Word Builder: difficult +
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