Thesaurus:difficult

Thesaurus:difficult

THESAURUS

difficult

English

Synonyms

• difficult

• effortful

• get blood out of a stone (idiomatic)

• pull teeth (idiomatic)

• tough

• uneath

• unsimple

Antonyms

• easy    [WS]

Hyponyms

• burdensome    [WS]

• complex    [WS]

• incomprehensible    [WS]

• subtle    [WS]

Various

• hard    [WS]

• backbreaking

• problematic

• nail Jell-O to a tree

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.