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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.
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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.
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There is not the strength or courage left me to
venture into the wide, strange, and difficult
world, alone. --Hawthorne.
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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}.
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Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, v. t.
To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W.
Temple.
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