01 a. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
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Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.“There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone.” — Hawthorne.
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Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
Syn.
Arduous; painful; crabbed; perplexed; laborious; unaccommodating; troublesome. See Arduous.