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Difficult as a Adjective has these synonyms:

intractable, recalcitrant, obstructive, stubborn, unmanageable, obstinate, contrary, unaccommodating, refractory, unyielding, uncompromising, naughty, ill-behaved, bloody-minded
Example: Tessa has three difficult teenagers in the house these days.

puzzling, perplexing, baffling, enigmatic(al), profound, abstruse, obscure, recondite, complex, thorny, intricate, sensitive, knotty, problematic(al), ticklish, scabrous
Example: Some of the questions in the exam were very difficult. The analyst raised a lot of difficult issues which I had to confront.

Difficult as a Verb has these synonyms:

hard, arduous, toilsome, strenuous, tough, laborious, burdensome, onerous, demanding
Example: He found it difficult to work the longer hours. The first birth is sometimes difficult.

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