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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, v. t.
     To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W.
     Temple.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, a. [From {Difficulty}.]
     1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended
        with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
  
     Note: 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.
  
                 There is not the strength or courage left me to
                 venture into the wide, strange, and difficult
                 world, alone.                      --Hawthorne.
  
     2. Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon;
        austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
  
     Syn: Arduous; painful; crabbed; perplexed; laborious;
          unaccommodating; troublesome. See {Arduous}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  difficult
       adj 1: 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"; "a difficult child";
              "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it
              so hard for you to keep a secret?" [syn: {hard}] [ant:
               {easy}]
       2: requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was
          long, steep, and difficult"

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