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difficult adjective [ ˈdɪfɪk(ə)lt ]

• needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand.
• "she had a difficult decision to make"
Similar: hard, strenuous, arduous, laborious, heavy, tough, onerous, burdensome, demanding, punishing, gruelling, grinding, back-breaking, painful, exhausting, tiring, fatiguing, wearing, wearying, wearisome, hellish, killing, knackering, toilsome, exigent, problematic, puzzling, baffling, perplexing, confusing, mystifying, mysterious, complicated, complex, involved, intricate, knotty, thorny, ticklish, obscure, abstract, abstruse, recondite, enigmatic, impenetrable, unfathomable, over one's head, above one's head, beyond one, fiddly, sticky, no picnic, gnarly, wildering, involute, involuted,
Opposite: easy, straightforward, simple,
Origin: late Middle English: back-formation from difficulty.


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