difficult
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
Adjective 2 meanings
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
“difficult of accomplishment”
Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
“Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.”
Etymology
From Middle English difficult (ca. 1400), a back-formation from difficulte (whence modern difficulty), from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile.
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DIFFICULT at a glance
DIFFICULT has 9 letters and scores 18 points in Scrabble (D 2 + I 1 + F 4 + F 4 + I 1 + C 3 + U 1 + L 1 + T 1) and 21 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #866 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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