difficult

Questions about difficult

What does difficult mean?

difficult means "not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in difficult?

difficult has 3 syllables: dif-fi-cult. The stress falls on "dif". In IPA it is /ˈdɪfəkəlt/.

What is another word for difficult?

Close synonyms include hard, unmanageable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of difficult?

The recorded antonyms are easy.

Is difficult a common word?

difficult is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.