verb
definition
To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
adjective
definition
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
example
However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.
definition
(often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
example
Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.
definition
Unable or unwilling.
Examples of difficult in a Sentence
This might be the most difficult decision she would ever make.
It must be difficult for Alex to keep you happy.
Then why was it so difficult to forgive him?
I can only imagine how difficult this is for you.
I sensed it was a difficult one on his part.
At every turn, this becomes more difficult to study.
That must have been really difficult for you.
His quiet statement was difficult to swallow.
It's difficult out on the road to hide them more than a day or two.
The deaf and the blind find it very difficult to acquire the amenities of conversation.
Directing Connie to the house would be difficult, but Lisa could wait at the end of the drive.
Marking the damp wall with chalk proved difficult, but they were satisfied the arrows were legible.
But a commander in chief, especially at a difficult moment, has always before him not one proposal but dozens simultaneously.
He asked Weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard and the difficult names of villages.
It would be a difficult tip to convey.
He blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life--to say an unpleasant thing to a man's face, to say what the other, whoever he might be, did not expect.
Damian managed to get the difficult words out through clenched teeth.
It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it.
It is easy to write laws, but difficult to rule....
This became a difficult task, as her publishers in Philadelphia had retired from business many years ago; however, it was eventually discovered that her residence is at Wilmington, Delaware, and copies of the second edition of the book, 1889, were obtained from her.
The French who had occupied the battery fled, and our troops shouting "Hurrah!" pursued them so far beyond the battery that it was difficult to call them back.
It was particularly difficult for Howie to remain in a silent darkened room without waking back to real time.
I'm sure it was a difficult decision.
At the present time it is difficult to know the real state of French public opinion.
Her face wore the proud expression of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the public to appreciate his skill.
If we were in Vienna it would be easy, but here, in this wretched Moravian hole, it is more difficult, and I beg you all to help me.
He was convinced that he alone could maintain command of the army in these difficult circumstances, and that in all the world he alone could encounter the invincible Napoleon without fear, and he was horrified at the thought of the order he had to issue.
Seducing him was something she thought would be difficult, but it was actually enjoyable.
It would be so unfair to so many people if we quit, but God almighty, it's difficult and scary.
The rough streets are too steep and narrow for vehicles, and even riding on horseback is often difficult.
Although the technique of growing cowpox on cow hides would come, transporting it was difficult due to lack of refrigeration.
Often, a buying decision hinges on a piece of arcane information about a product that is difficult to locate.
Evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done at Anna Pavlovna's, that it would be difficult to get rid of Anna Mikhaylovna.
But despite her grief, or perhaps just because of it, she took on herself all the difficult work of directing the storing and packing of their things and was busy for whole days.
Difficult as it was to believe he was involved in something like this, it was even harder to believe he had no interest in her.
But as time progressed, his obvious reluctance to propose marriage presented a far more difficult problem.
It was difficult to believe we'd slipped into a routine.
Jonny was only accepting the path he'd already chosen, but it was a difficult pill for her to swallow.
He is difficult to classify.
It's difficult attaining this state but it is unbelievably clear once accomplished.
Maybe it was a relationship that was difficult for the modern wife to understand.
Disregarding the officers' orders, the soldiers stood leaning against their stretchers and gazing intently, as if trying to comprehend the difficult problem of what was taking place before them.
The geology of our campsite made it difficult to set up the tent.
Now that the truth was out, maybe it wouldn't be so difficult to live in the same apartment now.
Look, Lacy, I'm not trying to be difficult.
It must be difficult for you, having to make all the decisions now.
This must be difficult for him.
It's difficult to put in words, but if he were to leave, he'd do it up front—he'd never just sneak away.
It isn't as difficult as it looks.
The mud brought down by it, calculated at 7150 lb an hour at Bagdad, is not deposited in marshes to form alluvium, as in the case of the Euphrates, but although in flood time the river becomes at places an inland sea, rendering navigation extremely difficult and uncertain, the bulk of the mud is deposited in banks, shoals and islands in the bed of the river, and is finally carried out into the Persian Gulf.