Re: define difficult
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:51:58 -0800
Well, I still feel most at home with dictionary.com or Webster's. One man's
meat, and so forth. As the noted American philosopher David Byrne says in
volume 3, Chapter 32, verse 2 of "Life during Wartime," there's (sic) a
million ways to get things done.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: define difficult
I notice that the definitions on this website are ancient. I will stay with
Google and thank Blake for his one-keystroke solution. Typically, Google
also gives a link to the definition above the search results, although not
in the simplified www.google.com/ie mode.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Here's an example. I created a new message to wsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, and in
the subject line, typed only define difficult
And sent it off. Here's the reply:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wordsmith" <wsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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