difficult

1. 1

   Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.

   • difficult of accomplishment
   • However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.
2. 2

   Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.often

   • Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.
3. 3

   Unable or unwilling.obsolete

   • “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.”

syn. burdensome · cumbersome · hard · arduous · challenging · nasty · difficult · sticky · effortful · rough · rocky · thistly

ant. easy

1. 1

   To make difficult, hinder; to impede; to perplex.obsoletetransitive

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