difficult

Etymology
From (ca. 1400), a  from  (whence modern ), from, from , from , older form of , from  + ; see difficile. Replaced native 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬, cognate to 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
 * However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater. [[File:However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.ogg]]
 * 1)  Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
 * 2)  Unable or unwilling.
 * 1)  Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
 * 2)  Unable or unwilling.
 * 1)  Unable or unwilling.
 * 1)  Unable or unwilling.

Usage notes
Difficult implies that considerable mental effort or physical skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the doer; as, a difficult task. Thus, “hard” is not always synonymous with difficult. Examples include a difficult operation in surgery and a difficult passage by an author (that is, a passage which is hard to understand).

Synonyms

 * see also Thesaurus:difficult
 * see also Thesaurus:difficult

Derived terms

 * difficult nut to crack

Translations

 * Afrikaans: moeilik
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: አስቸጋሪ
 * Arabic: صَعْب
 * Moroccan Arabic: واعر
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Assamese: টান
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, düşvar
 * Bashkir: ҡыйын, ауыр
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:, тру́дны
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bikol Legazpi:
 * Bikol Naga: masakit
 * Breton:
 * Brunei Malay: payah
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: lisud
 * Chamicuro: yeewa
 * Chechen: хала
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏦᏍᏗ, ᏍᏓᏯ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 難, 困難
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Wu: 難
 * Chukchi: аӈъачеты
 * Crimean Tatar: qıyın
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: vanskelig
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: malfacila
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: torførur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, arrevesado
 * Georgian: ძნელი, რთული,
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌿𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: χαλεπός, δυσχερής
 * Greenlandic: sapernarpoq
 * Gujarati: કઠિન
 * Haitian Creole: difisil
 * Hebrew:, מסובך
 * Hindi:, , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: narigat
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Ingush: хала
 * Interlingua: difficile
 * Irish: deacair
 * Old Irish: ansae
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kabuverdianu: puxadu, pexóde, rabés
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: қиын, ауыр
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: زەحمەت, گران, سەخت
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Ladino: difísil, zor
 * Lao: ຍາກ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: sarežģīts, grūts
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: тежок, мачен
 * Malay: ,
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: doillee, creoi, trome, mooar, neuaashagh
 * Maori: whēuaua, uaua, taumaha hārukiruki
 * Marathi: अवघड, कठीण
 * Mirandese: defícel
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:, , ,
 * Navajo: nantłʼah
 * Northern Sami: váttis
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: ,
 * Odia:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: тѩжькъ
 * Old English: earfoþe
 * Pashto: ګران, مشکل
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਕਠਿਨ
 * Quechua: sasa
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Samoan: faigatā
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: doirbh, mì-fhurasda, cruaidh, trom, duilich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тежак
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: අමාරු
 * Slovak: obtiažny, ťažký
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: ćežki
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: mahirap
 * Tajik:, душвор,
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: кыен,
 * Telugu: ,
 * Tetum: susar
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཁག་པོ, དཀའ་ལས་ཁག་པོ, དཀའ་མོ, དཀའ་ངལ་ཅན
 * Tocharian B: waimene, āmāskai
 * Tongan: faingataʻa
 * Turkish:, , , , , düşvar,
 * Turkmen: çatak, çetin, kyn, müçgil
 * Tày: cáo quán
 * Ukrainian:, трудни́й
 * Urdu: مشکل, دشوار, کٹھن
 * Uyghur: قىيىن, مۈشكۈل
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian:
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: שווער, האַרב
 * Yoruba: le
 * Zhuang:


 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: χαλεπός
 * Irish: ciotach
 * Kabuverdianu: rabés
 * Latin:

Verb

 * 1)  To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
 * 2) * August 9 1678,, letter to Joseph Williamson
 * their Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions, which had difficulted the peace

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: