difficult
About 124.63 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
difficult of accomplishment
- adjective Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.
- adjective Unable or unwilling.
- verb To make difficult, hinder; to impede; to perplex.
Similar words
challenging trying arduous problematic tricky hard hard-fought effortful fractious troublesome
Often followed by
to for and task than it in or of
Word family
difficultly
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