difficult

  • (a) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
    • a difficult task
    • nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access
    • difficult times
    • why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?
    hard,
  • (a) hard to control
    • a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation
    unmanageable,

Synonyms

hard unmanageable

Antonyms

easy manageable

See also

demanding effortful hard defiant noncompliant disobedient intractable

Words of close approximity

difficultness difficulty