Adjective: difficult di-fi-kult
- 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";
- hard
- Hard to control
"a difficult child";
- unmanageable
See also: ambitious, arduous, awkward, baffling, catchy, challenging, defiant, delicate, demanding, difficultness, difficulty, disobedient, effortful, elusive, embarrassing, exacting, fiendish, fractious, hard, hard-fought, herculean, incorrigible, indocile, intractable, knotty, nasty, noncompliant, problematic, problematical, rocky, rough, rugged, serious, sticky, tall, thorny, ticklish, tickly, tight, touchy, tough, tricky, troublesome, trying, uncheckable, uncontrollable, unenviable, ungovernable, unruly, vexed
Antonym: easy, manageable
Encyclopedia: Difficult, Tennessee