Thesaurus:difficult

THESAURUS

difficult

English

Adjective

Sense: hard, not easy, requiring much effort

Synonyms

• challenging
• difficult
• effortful
• rocky
• tough
• uneath
• unsimple

Antonyms

• easy    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• burdensome    [⇒ thesaurus]
• complex    [⇒ thesaurus]
• incomprehensible    [⇒ thesaurus]
• killing    [⇒ thesaurus]
• murderous
• subtle    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• awkward

• hard    [⇒ thesaurus]
• backbreaking
• cumbersome
• get blood from a stone (idiomatic)
• get blood out of a stone (idiomatic)
• heavy
• nail Jell-O to a tree (US, rare)
• problematic
• pull teeth (idiomatic)

See also

• Thesaurus:difficult situation
• Thesaurus:test (difficult task)

Further reading

• “704. difficulty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “difficult” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.