easy(NOT DIFFICULT)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not easy to deal with or understand
difficultIt's very difficult to find a job in this city.
hardThe exam was really hard.
complicatedThe instructions were so complicated I just couldn't follow them.
complexDesigning a house is a complex process.
trickyIt's quite tricky getting the puzzle pieces to fit together.
B1
not friendly, easy to deal with, or behaving well: 不友好的；难以接近的；难对付的；没教养的
[ + to infinitive ]The manager is difficult to deal with/a difficult person to deal with.那位经理很难对付。
His wife is a very difficult woman.他妻子是个难以接近的人。
mainly UKPlease children, don't be so difficult!孩子们，不要这样没规矩！
This meat is difficult to chew.这肉很难嚼。
The noise outside made it difficult to concentrate.
It must be difficult to cope with three small children and a job.
She has had to make some very difficult decisions.她必须作出某些非常艰难的决定。
This novel is too difficult for intermediate students of English.这部小说对于中等程度的英语学习者来说太难了。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complicated and difficult to do
advanced
ambitious
ambitiously
another
arduous
formidably
get blood out of/from a stoneidiom
grail
gruelling
gruellingly
onerously
overdemanding
painstaking
picnic
problematic
trickily
tricky
tuff
ultra-sensitive
unintuitive

difficult | American Dictionary

difficult
adjective
us/ˈdɪf·ɪ·kəlt, -ˌkʌlt/
not easy or simple; hard to do or to understand:
It’s a difficult choice, but I’ve got to decide which job is better.
Difficult also means having problems:
He’s in a difficult situation and could go bankrupt.
A person who is difficult is not easy to deal with:
I loved him, but he could be difficult at times.

Examples of difficult

difficult
At the same time, adverbial licensing is a rather difficult topic, so some loose ends in the presentation can be expected.
At the same time, it was difficult, if not dangerous, to deny the developing sense of dominion identity.
From the 42 responses it was extremely difficult to distinguish between a protocol and an information sheet.
The choice between these latter approaches is more difficult.
In game theory, it is very difficult to alter the assumption of common knowledge.
To stop using them in conformal prostate treatment may prove to be difficult.
Anecdotal evidence on the point is not difficult to gather.
Without a sufficiently rich belief system it is difficult for subjective measures to accurately model the user domain.
We find it difficult to introduce these optimisations in our model and at the same time to keep the correctness argument simple.
Their system proves fewer program transformations as equalities, requiring instead the more difficult notion of observational equivalence.
Combined with the lack of an overview or common examples this makes it quite difficult to compare the four languages.
In some ways, the code examples make it a little difficult to jump around, since you are expected to build upon previous code.
As some of these forces are acting on this population, it is difficult to make any estimate on this result.
In these the heterogeneity is difficult to interpret.
The category differences correspond to different morphosyntactic properties, but the semantic values of these words are difficult to differentiate.
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