Word

difficult, adj.
freq. cnt. 63

not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 100 freq. cnt.: 63 freq. cnt.: 37

difficult hard

sample sentences

"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?"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

difficultness

antonym

easy

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

hardness

semantic pointers

also see

demanding effortful hard

attribute

difficulty, difficultness

similar to

ambitious, challenging arduous embarrassing, awkward, sticky, unenviable baffling, knotty, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough catchy, tricky delicate, ticklish, touchy fractious hard-fought herculean nasty, tight rough, rocky tough, rugged serious tall thorny troublesome trying vexed

hard to control
<adj.all>

difficult unmanageable

sample sentences

"a difficult child"
"an unmanageable situation"

lexical pointers

antonym

manageable

derivationally related form

unmanageableness

semantic pointers

also see

defiant, noncompliant disobedient intractable

similar to

indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly incorrigible uncheckable