difficult

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈdɪfɪkəlt/]

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1. difficult (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.

Example: difficult of accomplishment

2. difficult (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.

Example: Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.

3. difficult (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Unable or unwilling.

Example: “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.”

4. difficult (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To make difficult, hinder; to impede; to perplex.

Example: August 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson
their Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions , which had difficulted the peace

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