difficult as an adjective: 1 2
difficult hard ambitious challenging arduous awkward embarrassing sticky unenviable baffling elusive knotty problematic problematical tough catchy tricky delicate ticklish touchy fractious hard-fought herculean nasty tight rocky rough rugged tough serious tall thorny troublesome trying vexed demanding effortful jump to corresponding sense entry
difficult adjective
1 difficult Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure:— A difficult task.
synonym: hard .
Roget 704 :difficult ,
not easy ,
hard ,
tough ;
troublesome ,
toilsome ,
irksome ;
operose † ,
laborious ,
onerous ,
arduous ,
Herculean ,
formidable ;
sooner said than done ;
more easily said than done ,
easier said than done .
difficult to deal with ,
hard to deal with ;
ill-conditioned ,
crabbed ,
crabby ;
not to be handled with kid gloves ,
not made with rose water .
awkward ,
unwieldy ,
unmanageable ;
intractable ,
stubborn
etc.
(obstinate)
606 perverse ,
refractory ,
plaguy † ,
trying ,
thorny ,
rugged ;
knotted ,
knotty ;
invious † ;
pathless ,
trackless ;
labyrinthine
etc.
(convoluted)
248 intricate ,
complicated
etc.
(tangled)
59 impracticable
etc.
(impossible)
471 not feasible
etc.
470 desperate
etc.
(hopeless)
859 embarrassing ,
perplexing
etc.
(uncertain)
475 delicate ,
ticklish ,
critical ;
beset with difficulties ,
full of difficulties ,
surrounded by difficulties ,
entangled by difficulties ,
encompassed with difficulties .
under a difficulty ;
in a box ;
in difficulty ,
in hot water ,
in the suds ,
in a cleft stick ,
in a fix ,
in the wrong box ,
in a scrape
etc.
n.,
in deep water ,
in a fine pickle ;
in extremis ;
between two stools ,
between Scylla and Charybdis ;
surrounded by shoals ,
surrounded by breakers ,
surrounded by quicksands ;
at cross purposes ;
not out of the wood .
reduced to straits ;
hard pressed ,
sorely pressed ;
run hard ;
pinched ,
put to it ,
straitened ;
hard up ,
hard put to it ,
hard set ;
put to one's shifts ;
puzzled ,
at a loss ,
etc.
(uncertain)
475 at the end of one's tether ,
at the end of one's rope ,
at one's wit's end ,
at a nonplus ,
at a standstill ;
graveled ,
nonplused ,
nonplussed ,
stranded ,
aground ;
stuck fast ,
set fast ;
up a tree ,
at bay ,
aux abois [Fr.] ,
driven into a corner ,
driven from pillar to post ,
driven to extremity ,
driven to one's wit's end ,
driven to the wall ;
au bout de son Latin ;
out of one's depth ;
thrown out .
accomplished with difficulty ;
hard-fought ,
hard-earned .
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Roget 868 :fastidious ,
nice ,
delicate ,
delicat † ,
finical ,
finicky ,
demanding ,
meticulous ,
exacting ,
strict ,
anal [Vulg.] ,
difficult ,
dainty ,
lickerish † ,
squeamish ,
thin-skinned ;
squeasy † ,
queasy ;
hard to please ,
difficult to please ;
querulous ,
particular ,
straitlaced ,
scrupulous ;
censorious
etc.
932 hypercritical ;
overcritical .
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Polish: niesłodki
2 difficult Moby thesaurus: Herculean , abstruse , adverse , antagonistic , arduous , awkward , baffling , beyond one , bloody-minded , brutal , burdensome , cantankerous , complex , complicated , conflicting , contrary , counter , counteractive , crabbed , cramp , critical , cross-grained , dark , delicate , demanding , detrimental , difficile , effortful , enigmatical , exacting , fastidious , finical , finicking , finicky , finikin , formidable , froward , fuss-budgety , fussy , garbled , grim , hairy , hard , hard to please , hard to understand , hard-earned , hard-fought , harmful , hostile , ill-behaved , in opposition , inimical , intractable , intricate , irascible , jawbreaking , jumbled , knotted , knotty , labored , laborious , mean , miserable , naughty , nit-picking , no picnic , not easy , obfuscated , obscure , obscured , obstinate , obstructive , onerous , operose , opposed , opposing , opposite , ornery , overtechnical , particular , pawky , pernickety , perplexed , perplexing , persnickety , perverse , problem , problematic , problematical , profound , puzzling , queasy , recalcitrant , recondite , refractory , rigorous , rough , rugged , scabrous , scrambled , sensitive , set with thorns , severe , sinister , spiny , squeamish , steep , strenuous , stressful , stubborn , stuffy , sulky , sullen , thorny , ticklish , toilsome , tough , tricky , troubled , troublesome , troubling , troublous , trying , unaccommodating , uncompromising , unfavorable , unmanageable , untoward , unyielding , uphill , wayward , wicked , wretched , wrongheaded ... show more .
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