Difficult : adj. (word from latin difficult).
The adjective "difficult" has many meanings:
1. Who is not easy ; which is only done with effort, with difficulty (synonyms: arduous, hard, laborious, difficult, painful, and by exaggeration: impossible, infeasible).
Deal, business, operation, hard work.
Long and difficult maneuver.
It's not that hard (it's not the sea à to drink).
Difficult to (and infinitive): This is difficult to do, to succeed.
How old can he be? - It's hard to say.
Impersonal: It is difficult, it is difficult for me to talk about it.
2. Which requires intellectual effort, capacities (to be understood, solved).
Passage, difficult text (synonyms: abstruse, complicated, confused, muddled, esoteric, impenetrable, inextricable, mysterious, obscure.
Difficult problem (familiar: wedged, chiadé, cotton, chunky).
Russian is more difficult than Spanish for a French speaker. Difficult author, whose writings are difficult to understand.
Difficult piece of music (to perform).
A difficult role (to play).
Quote from the French writer Philippe Néricaut Destouches (1680-1754): “Criticism is easy, and art is difficult”.
Quote from the French writer Jean Cocteau (1889-1963): “The French language is difficult. She is reluctant to certain sweets.
3. Which presents a danger, an inconvenience (access, passage).
Place of difficult access.
Path, road, difficult way (synonyms: steep, impassable, inaccessible; dangerous, perilous).
4 Which gives torment (painful, painful, sad).
Position, difficult situation (delicate, embarrassing).
There was a difficult time in his life (a bad time). Having difficult beginnings.
Who is experiencing public order, social difficulties.
A difficult (sensitive) neighborhood.
5. People: Who is not well off, pleasant to associate with (synonyms: cantankerous, annoying, demanding, intractable, irascible; and also difficult).
Difficult child (to bring up) (capricious).
Mood, difficult character (hard, bad, touchy).
Difficult to live.
6. People: Who is not easily Satisfied ; who has likes demanding (demanding; delicate, refined).
To be, to be difficult on the food.
Being difficult in choosing your relationships.
Noun: Make (the) difficult (make the small appetizer ; do it disgusted).
Opposites of difficult: easy; pleasant, easy, convenient, simple. Accommodating, amiable, conciliatory.