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UK
/dˈɪfɪkəlt/
]
[ US /ˈdɪfəkəɫt/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪfəkəɫt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
difficult times
a difficult task
nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access
why is it so hard for you to keep a secret? -
hard to control
a difficult child
an unmanageable situation
How To Use difficult In A Sentence
- The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
- He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
- Difficulties help to forge people into able folk.
- Instead a great deal of difficult negotiation ensued. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
- Striking that balance between old and new will always be difficult, but after a few numbers here, memories of their old bandmaster begin to fade.
- Naturally, this makes interpersonal relations, especially with societies unexposed to the advantages of the American lifestyle, a little difficult.
- Outrages like the Thomas case make it a good deal more difficult for enlightened penal reformers like the Professor to get a fair hearing when they advocate bringing back the lash.
- Cppd crystals are smaller rods, squares, or rhomboids and are difficult to identify with light microscopy.
- Considering my diminutiveness, the size of the pail in my lap, and my drinking out of it my breath held and my face buried to the ears in foam, it was rather difficult to estimate how much I drank. Chapter 3
- It is difficult to see why dialogue negates or denies the existence of authority.