difficult

• WordNet 3.6
  • adj difficult not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure "a difficult task","nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access","difficult times","why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
  • adj difficult hard to control "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"
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• Interesting fact: Frog-eating bats identify edible frogs from poisonous ones by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter this by hiding and using short, difficult to locate calls
• • Difficult Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. "There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone."
  • Difficult Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
  • v. t Difficult To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.
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• Interesting fact: In the NHL in the 1960’s, the league decided that home teams would wear white, while visiting teams would wear their dark jerseys. The reasoning behind this was that it would be more difficult to keep white uniforms clean while on the road.
• • difficult Not easy; requiring or dependent on effort; hard; troublesome; arduous. Specifically— Hard as to doing or effecting; wanting facility of accomplishment: with an infinitive: as, it is difficult to convince him; a thing that is difficult to do or to find.
  • difficult Hard to do, perform, or overcome; attended with labor, pains, or opposition; laborious: as, a difficult undertaking.
  • difficult Hard to please or satisfy; not compliant; unaccommodating; rigid; austere: as, a person of difficult temper.
  • difficult Hard to persuade or induce; stubborn in yielding; obstinate as to opinion: as, he was difficult to convince.
  • difficult Hard to understand or solve; perplexing; puzzling: as, a difficult passage in an author; a difficult question or problem.
  • difficult Synonyms Difficult, Hard, Arduous (see arduous), laborious, toilsome; obscure, knotty.
  • difficult To make difficult; impede.
  • difficult To perplex; embarrass.
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• Interesting fact: Because of the salt content of the Dead Sea, it is difficult to dive below its surface.
• • adj Difficult dif′i-kult not easy: hard to be done: requiring labour and pains: hard to please: not easily persuaded
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• George Bernard Shaw

  

  “Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.”
• Zen Saying

  

  “The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.”
• George Sala

  

  “Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
• George Bernard Shaw

  

  “No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.”
• Publius Terentius Afer

  

  “There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
• Olga Korbut

  

  “Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.”

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