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Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:16 PM
Subject: define difficult


2 definitions found

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, v. t.
     To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W.
     Temple.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  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.

     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}.

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