Difficult
Difficult , adjective
[From Difficulty.]
1.
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.
Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the agent; as, a difficult task; hard work is not always difficult work; a difficult operation in surgery; a difficult passage in an author.
2.
Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
Difficult , transitive verb
To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [Rare] — Sir W. Temple