English-Thai Dictionary

difficult

ADJ ยาก  ลำบาก  ยุ่งยาก  ลำเค็ญ  ทุกข์ยาก  arduous hard heavy laborious easy simple yeak

 

difficultly

ADV อย่าง ยากลำบาก 

 

difficulty

N ความยากลำบาก  ความยุ่งยาก  ความเดือดร้อน  อุปสรรค  annoyance disavantage problem trouble kwam-yeak-lam-bak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIFFICULT

a.[L., easy to be made or done; to make or do. ] 1. Hard to be made, done or performed; not easy; attended with labor and pains; as, our task is difficult. It is difficult to persuade men to abandon vice. It is difficult to ascend a steep hill, or travel a bad road.
2. Hard to be pleased; not easily wrought upon; not readily yielding; not compliant; unaccommodating; rigid; austere; not easily managed or persuaded; as a difficult man; a person of a difficult temper.
3. Hard to be ascended as a hill, traveled as a road, or crossed as a river, etc. We say, a difficult ascent; a difficult road; a difficult river to cross; etc.

 

DIFFICULTY

n.[L.] 1. Hardness to be done or accomplished; the state of any thing which renders its performance laborious or perplexing; opposed to easiness or facility; as the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of labor and difficulty.
2. That which is hard to be performed or surmounted. We often mistake difficulties for impossibilities. To overcome difficulties is an evidence of a great mind.
3. Perplexity; embarrassment of affairs; trouble; whatever renders progress or execution of designs laborious. We lie under many difficulties, by reason of bad markets, or a low state of trade.
4. Objection; obstacle to belief; that which cannot be easily understood, explained or believed, Men often raise difficulties concerning miracles and mysteries in religion, which candid research will remove.
5. In a popular sense, bodily complaints; indisposition.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DIFFICULT

Dif "fi *cult, a. Etym: [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.

 

DIFFICULT

DIFFICULT Dif "fi *cult, v. t.

 

Defn: To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] Sir W. Temple.

 

DIFFICULTATE

DIFFICULTATE Dif "fi *cult *ate, v. t.

 

Defn: To render difficult; to difficilitate. [Obs. ] Cotgrave.

 

DIFFICULTLY

DIFFICULTLY Dif "fi *cult *ly, adv.

 

Defn: With difficulty. Cowper.

 

DIFFICULTNESS

DIFFICULTNESS Dif "fi *cult *ness, n.

 

Defn: Difficulty. [R.] Golding.

 

DIFFICULTY

Dif "fi *cul *ty, n.; pl. Difficulties. Etym: [L. difficultas, fr. difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. See Facile. ]

 

1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not being able to promote them [the interests of life ] on account of the difficulty of the region. James Byrne.

 

2. Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology. They lie under some difficulties by reason of the emperor's displeasure. Addison.

 

3. A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil. Measures for terminating all local difficulties. Bancroft.

 

4. Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties. In days of difficulty and pressure. Tennyson.

 

Syn. -- Impediment; obstacle; obstruction; embarrassment; perplexity; exigency; distress; trouble; trial; objection; cavil. See Impediment.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

difficult

dif fi cult |ˈdifikəlt ˈdɪfəkəlt | ▶adjective needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand: she had a difficult decision to make | the questions are too difficult for the children. • characterized by or causing hardships or problems: a difficult economic climate. • (of a person ) not easy to please or satisfy: Lily could be difficult. DERIVATIVES dif fi cult ly adverb ( rare ), dif fi cult ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: back-formation from difficulty .

 

difficulty

dif fi cul ty |ˈdifikəltē ˈdɪfəkəlti | ▶noun ( pl. difficulties ) the state or condition of being difficult: Guy had no difficulty in making friends | she walks with difficulty . • a thing that is hard to accomplish, deal with, or understand: there is a practical difficulty | a club with financial difficulties. • (often difficulties ) a situation that is difficult or dangerous: they went for a swim but got into difficulties. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the senses ‘requiring effort or skill ’ and ‘something difficult ’): from Latin difficultas, from dis- (expressing reversal ) + facultas ‘ability, opportunity. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

difficult

dif |fi ¦cult |ˈdɪfɪk (ə )lt | ▶adjective needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand: she had a difficult decision to make | the questions are too difficult for the children. • characterized by or causing hardships or problems: a difficult economic climate. • (of a person ) not easy to please or satisfy; awkward: Lily could be difficult. DERIVATIVES difficultly adverb ( rare ), difficultness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: back-formation from difficulty .

 

difficulty

dif |fi ¦culty |ˈdɪfɪk (ə )lti | ▶noun ( pl. difficulties ) [ mass noun ] the state or condition of being difficult: Guy had no difficulty in making friends | I managed with difficulty to struggle upright. • [ count noun ] a thing that is hard to accomplish, deal with, or understand: there is a practical difficulty | a club with financial difficulties. • (difficulties ) a situation that is difficult or dangerous: they went for a swim but got into difficulties. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the senses ‘requiring effort or skill ’ and ‘something difficult ’): from Latin difficultas, from dis- (expressing reversal ) + facultas ‘ability, opportunity ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

difficult

difficult adjective 1 a very difficult job: hard, strenuous, arduous, laborious, tough, onerous, burdensome, demanding, punishing, grueling, back-breaking, exhausting, tiring, fatiguing, wearisome; informal hellish, killing; archaic toilsome. ANTONYMS easy. 2 she found math very difficult: hard, complicated, complex, involved, impenetrable, unfathomable, over /above one's head, beyond one, puzzling, baffling, perplexing, confusing, mystifying; problematic, intricate, knotty, thorny, ticklish. ANTONYMS simple, straightforward. 3 a difficult child: troublesome, tiresome, trying, exasperating, awkward, demanding, perverse, contrary, recalcitrant, unmanageable, obstreperous, unaccommodating, unhelpful, uncooperative, disobliging; hard to please, fussy, finicky; formal refractory. ANTONYMS accommodating. 4 you've come at a difficult time: inconvenient, awkward, inopportune, unfavorable, unfortunate, inappropriate, unsuitable, untimely, ill-timed. ANTONYMS convenient. 5 the family has been through a difficult year: bad, tough, grim, dark, black, hard, adverse, distressing; straitened. ANTONYMS happy. WORD SPECTRUM: docile / difficult See docile Word Spectrums show shades of meaning between two polar opposites.

 

difficulty

difficulty noun 1 the difficulty of balancing motherhood with a career: strain, trouble, problems, toil, struggle, laboriousness, arduousness; informal hassle, stress. ANTONYMS ease. 2 the project has met with one difficulty after another: problem, complication, snag, hitch, pitfall, handicap, impediment, hindrance, obstacle, hurdle, stumbling block, obstruction, barrier; informal fly in the ointment, headache; growing pains. 3 (difficulties ) Charles got into difficulties: trouble, predicament, plight, hard times, dire straits; quandary, dilemma; informal deep water, a fix, a jam, a spot, a scrape, a stew, a hole, a pickle.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

difficult

difficult adjective 1 digging through the snow was becoming increasingly difficult: hard, strenuous, arduous, laborious, heavy, tough, onerous, burdensome, demanding, punishing, gruelling, grinding, back-breaking, painful; exhausting, tiring, fatiguing, wearing, wearying, wearisome; informal hellish, killing; Brit. informal knackering; archaic toilsome; rare exigent. ANTONYMS easy. 2 she found maths very difficult: problematic, hard, puzzling, baffling, perplexing, confusing, mystifying, mysterious; complicated, complex, involved, intricate, knotty, thorny, ticklish; obscure, abstract, abstruse, recondite, enigmatic, impenetrable, unfathomable, over one's head, above one's head, beyond one; informal fiddly, sticky, no picnic; N. Amer. informal gnarly; archaic wildering; rare involute, involuted. ANTONYMS straightforward, simple. 3 the office manager was a difficult man: troublesome, tiresome, trying, exasperating, demanding, unmanageable, intractable, perverse, contrary, recalcitrant, obstreperous, refractory, fractious; unaccommodating, unhelpful, uncooperative, unamenable, unreasonable, disobliging, stubborn, obstinate, bull-headed, pig-headed; hard to please, hard to satisfy, fussy, particular, over-particular, fastidious, perfectionist, critical, hypercritical, finicky; Brit. awkward; Scottish thrawn; informal cussed; choosy, picky; Brit. informal bloody-minded, bolshie, stroppy; N. Amer. informal balky; archaic contumacious, froward; rare contrarious, finical. ANTONYMS accommodating. 4 you've come at a difficult time: inconvenient, awkward, unfavourable, unfortunate, inappropriate, unsuitable, untimely, ill-timed, inopportune, inexpedient, disadvantageous; archaic unseasonable. ANTONYMS convenient. 5 the family have been through very difficult times: bad, tough, grim, terrible, awful, dreadful, nightmarish, dark, black, hard, adverse, unpleasant, unwelcome, disagreeable, distressing, harrowing; straitened, hard-pressed; literary direful; archaic or humorous parlous. ANTONYMS happy.

 

difficulty

difficulty noun 1 her note had been penned with obvious difficulty: strain, struggling, awkwardness, trouble, toil, labour, laboriousness, strenuousness, arduousness; pains, problems, trials and tribulations; informal hassle, stress; literary dolour, travails. ANTONYMS ease. 2 the questions are arranged in order of difficulty: complexity, complicatedness, intricacy, perplexity, knottiness, awkwardness; difficultness, trickiness, hardness; obscurity, abstruseness. ANTONYMS simplicity. 3 the cost of the journey was not an insurmountable difficulty: problem, complication, disadvantage, snag, hitch, drawback, pitfall, handicap, impediment, hindrance, obstacle, hurdle, stumbling block, obstruction, barrier; informal fly in the ointment, prob, headache, hiccup, facer; Brit. informal spanner in the works; N. Amer. informal monkey wrench in the works; dated cumber; literary trammel. 4 they felt unable to ask for help when they were in difficulty: trouble, distress, crisis, hardship; adversity, extremity, need; hard times, dire straits; predicament, quandary, dilemma, plight; informal hot water, deep water, a fix, a jam, a spot, a scrape, a stew, a hole, a pickle.

 

French Dictionary

difficulté

difficulté n. f. nom féminin 1 Caractère d ’une chose difficile, complexe. : Ce dossier présente un problème; pourrez-vous éluder cette difficulté? Les difficultés de la langue française. La solution d ’une difficulté. SYNONYME complexité . ANTONYME facilité ; simplicité . 2 Obstacle, empêchement. : Éprouver des difficultés à joindre les deux bouts. Vous arriverez à surmonter cette difficulté, à la vaincre, à lever cette difficulté, à en venir à bout, à triompher de cette difficulté. SYNONYME ennui ; problème . LOCUTIONS Avec difficulté Difficilement. : C ’est avec difficulté que nous avons réussi à le convaincre. Avoir des difficultés avec une personne. Ne pas être d ’accord avec elle. En cas de difficulté. En cas de problème. : En cas de difficulté, n ’hésitez pas à communiquer avec nous. En difficulté. Dont la situation est problématique. : Des embarcations en difficulté. Faire des difficultés. Créer des obstacles, faire objection à quelque chose, invoquer des problèmes pour ne pas accepter. : Ne fais pas de difficultés, viens fêter avec nous! Mettre en difficulté. Compromettre, rendre vulnérable. : Des entreprises mises en difficulté par la récession. Sans difficulté Sans problème, facilement. : Nous pourrons nous retrouver sans difficulté. SYNONYME sans peine . Note Technique Le nom difficulté demeure généralement au singulier dans les expressions en cas de difficulté, en difficulté, sans difficulté, avec difficulté.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

difficult

dif fi cult /dɪ́fɪk (ə )lt /→difficulty 形容詞 more ～; most ～1 〈物 事が 〉 «…にとって /…するのが » 難しい , 困難な «for /to do » (↔easy ) (!hardやtoughよりかたい語で深刻な内容を話題にする際に好まれる ) ; 〖it is difficult (for A ) to do 〗(A 〈人 〉にとって [Aが ])…することは難しい (!to doの代わりにdoingを用いることがあるがきわめて ｟まれ ｠; →it 代名詞 4a ) ; 〖be difficult (for A ) to do 〗〈事 人 物が 〉(A 〈人 〉にとって [Aが ])…しにくい (!｟コーパス ｠前者の構文と共にfor Aを伴うのは文脈から推定できない場合に限られ2割足らずにすぎない; いずれの構文についても詳しくは →easy 1 , for 17a, 18 ) ▸ It was a difficult decision for me .それは私にとって難しい決断だった ▸ a difficult question to answer ≒｟まれ ｠a question difficult to answer 答えにくい質問 (!後者のようにdifficultを後置すると一時的な性質を暗示する ) ▸ It is difficult for me to explain the idea. ≒The idea is difficult for me to explain. ≒Explaining [｟まれ ｠To explain ] the idea is difficult for me .その考えを説明することは私にとって困難だ (!(1 ) 2番目の構文ではexplainの意味上の目的語が主語the ideaであることに注意. (2 )╳ It is difficult that …や ╳ I am difficult to explain …としない ) ▸ I found it difficult to talk with my father .私は父と話をするのが苦手だった ▸ The sun behind Tom's head made it difficult for me to look into his face .トムの頭の後ろに太陽があったので彼の顔が見にくかった 2 〈状況 時期 事などが 〉【人にとって 】問題の多い , 苦しい , つらい, 面倒な ; 〈時間帯などが 〉都合が悪い «for » ▸ be in a difficult situation 苦しい立場にいる ▸ I'm having a very difficult time writing an essay .エッセイを書くのに大変苦労しているところだ ▸ The problem made life difficult for me .その問題のために人生は私にとって苦しいものとなった ▸ a difficult birth 難産 .3 〈人が 〉 «…するのに » 気難しい , 扱いにくい, 頑固な «to do » ▸ a difficult child 扱いにくい [手の焼ける ]子供 ▸ John, don't be difficult !ジョン, 無茶を言わないで .

 

difficulty

dif fi cul ty /dɪ́fɪk (ə )lti, -kʌlti / (! 強勢は第1音節 ) 〖dif (打ち消し )ficulty (容易 )〗(形 )difficult 名詞 複 -ties /-z /1 U «…(すること )における /…についての » 難しさ, 困難 , 苦難, 苦労 «in (do ing )/with , about » ; (テストなどの )難易度 ▸ I had (great ) [had little ] difficulty (｟かたく ｠in ) losing weight .体重を減らすのに (大変 )苦労した [ほとんど苦労しなかった ](╳… difficulty to lose weightとしない )▸ I had the most difficulty with math .数学がいちばん苦手だった ▸ I wrote it down with some [a little ] difficulty .私は少しばかり苦労してそれを書き取った ▸ He has done the work without (any ) difficulty [(too ) much difficulty ].彼は何の [あまり ]苦労もなくその仕事をやってのけた ▸ talk about the difficulty of doing research 研究活動の難しさについて語る 2 C U «…(すること )における /…についての » やっかいな [困った ]事柄 , 難事, 障害 (!many, a fewなどによる修飾は可能だが, 通例one, twoなど具体的数詞と共に用いない ) ; 〖通例 -ties 〗困った状態 [立場 ] «in (do ing )/with , about » ▸ face a difficulty 難事に直面する ▸ get [run ] into difficulties 困難な状態に陥る (!時にdifficultiesの代わりにdifficultyが用いられる ) ▸ be in difficulty [｟主に英 ｠difficulties ]危機に瀕 （ひん ）している ▸ We're having [experiencing ] financial [technical ] difficulties .我々は経済 [技術 ]的障害を抱えている ▸ a child with learning [breathing, hearing, visual ] difficulties 学習 [呼吸, 聴覚, 視覚 ]障害のある子供 ▸ There is a difficulty here .ここにひとつ問題がある ▸ overcome many difficulties 多くの障害を克服する 3 U C いざこざ, もめごと ; 争い, 口論 .