difficult

/ˈdɪfɪkəlt/ adjective

Definition

NOT EASY › not easy and needing skill or effort to do or understand: Japanese is a difficult language for Europeans to learn. This game is too difficult for me. [+ to do sth] It's difficult to think with all that noise.

PERSON › not friendly or easy to deal with: a difficult teenager

(Definition of difficult adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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