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difficult
Synonyms and Antonyms of difficult
- difficult questions on the exam that required analytical thinking
arduous, Augean, backbreaking, challenging, demanding, effortful, exacting, formidable, grueling (or gruelling), hard, heavy, hellacious, herculean, killer, laborious, moiling, murderous, pick-and-shovel, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stiff, strenuous, sweaty, tall, testing, toilsome, tough, uphill
abstract, abstruse, complex, complicated, elusive, hairy, insoluble, intricate, involved, knotty, opaque, problematic (also problematical), recondite, serious, spiny, stubborn, thorny, ticklish, tricky
bruising, burdensome, exhausting, labored, onerous, oppressive, stressful, taxing, tight, trying
annoying, bothersome, distressing, irksome, troublesome, vexatious
cheap, easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding
- it's a difficult situation when two of your friends are quarreling and you're trying to stay out of it
Synonym Discussion of difficult
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- farming is hard work
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- the difficult ascent of the mountain
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- the arduous task of rebuilding
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