difficult, hard
(adjective) 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”; “why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?”
unmanageable, difficult
(adjective) hard to control; “a difficult child”; “an unmanageable situation”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
difficult (comparative difficulter or more difficult, superlative difficultest or most difficult)
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
(often of a, person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
(obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
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: Other examples include a difficult operation in surgery and a difficult passage by an author (that is, a passage which is hard to understand).
• burdensome, cumbersome, hard
• see also difficult
difficult (third-person singular simple present difficults, present participle difficulting, simple past and past participle difficulted)
(obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
Source: Wiktionary
Dif"fi*cult, a. Etym: [From Difficulty.]
1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
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. There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone. Hawthorne.
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.
Dif"fi*cult, v. t.
Definition: To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] Sir W. Temple.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
