difficult — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.

   ÜbersetzungNicht leicht; viel Mühe erfordernd.

   Beispiele

   This task is difficult.

   Diese Aufgabe ist schwierig.

   difficult of accomplishment

   However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.

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   If they're difficult, offer them more.

   There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world, alone.

   In adults, the same kind of anger has been studied in people trying to solve a very difficult math problem. Though the tough math problem is very frustrating, there is an active attempt to solve the problem and meet the goal.

   Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.

2. Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.

   ÜbersetzungSchwer zu handhaben, unkooperativ oder problematisch.

   Gebrauch

   • often
   • of a person

   Beispiele

   The customer was difficult.

   Der Kunde war schwierig.

   Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.

3. Unable or unwilling.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch

   Beispiele

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   “I hope, madam,” said Jones, “my charming Lady Bellaston will be as difficult to believe anything against one who is so sensible of the many obligations she hath conferred upon him.”

Verb

1. To make difficult, hinder; to impede; to perplex.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch
   • transitiv

   Beispiele

   August 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson their Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions , which had difficulted the peace

Adjektiv

1. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

   Synonyme

   hard

   Antonyme

   easy

   Beispiele

   a difficult task

   nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access

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   difficult times

   why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?

2. hard to control

   Synonyme

   unmanageable

   Beispiele

   a difficult child

   an unmanageable situation