difficult
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
difficult/ˈdɪfɪkəlt/
▶adjective
- 1 needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand.
- 2 not easy to please or satisfy; awkward.
– derivatives
difficultly adverb (rare),
difficultness noun.
difficultly adverb (rare),
difficultness noun.
'difficult' also found in these Oxford entries:
abstruse
- ambitious
- arduous
- ask
- baptism
- barb
- bastard
- batten
- battle
- beleaguer
- bitch
- bite
- black diamond
- blockage
- boat
- body
- brace
- bracer
- brazen
- bull
- carry
- catch
- catch-22
- chin
- choke
- circumstance
- club
- clumsy
- confused
- conundrum
- cope
- corner
- cramped
- cryptic
- cumbersome
- cut
- deep
- defeat
- defuse
- devil
- devilish
- difficulty
- dilemma
- dim
- dys-
- dyspareunia
- dyspepsia
- dyspnoea
- dyspraxia
