Sekirov Dictionary

difficult

/ˈdɪfɪkəlt/

adjective 3
verb 1
forms 7

adjective3

•
hard, and taking a lot of effort to do or understand
- However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.
- If they're difficult, offer them more.
•
Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
- Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.
•
(no longer used) Unable or unwilling.
- “I hope, madam,” said Jones, “my charming Lady Bellaston will be as difficult to believe anything against one who is so sensible of the many obligations she hath conferred upon him.” — 1749

verb1

•
(no longer used) To make difficult, hinder; to impede; to perplex.
- August 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson their Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions , which had difficulted the peace

forms

difficulted · difficulting · difficults · difficulter · more difficult · difficultest · most difficult

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