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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, v. t. To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W. Temple. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, a. [From {Difficulty}.] 1. Hard to do or to make beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. Note: Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the agent; as a difficult task; hard work is not always difficult work a difficult operation in surgery; a difficult passage in an author. There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone. --Hawthorne. 2. Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon austere; stubborn; as a difficult person. Syn: Arduous; painful; crabbed; perplexed; laborious; unaccommodating; troublesome. See {Arduous}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: difficult adj 1: 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"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" [syn: {hard}] [ant: {easy}] 2: requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was long, steep, and difficult"
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