Synonyms for Difficult:

• adj.

  •adverse (adjective)
  • unlucky,
  • antipathetic,
  • unfortunate,
  • opposing,
  • grievous,
  • unpropitious,
  • distressful,
  • calamitous,
  • disastrous,
  • untoward,
  • inauspicious,
  • catastrophic,
  • detrimental,
  • tragic,
  • unfriendly,
  • perilous,
  • miserable,
  • adverse,
  • hard,
  • unfavorable,
  • woeful.
  •all (adjective)
  • unmanageable,
  • difficult.
  •ambitious (adjective)
  • loftier,
  • severe,
  • strenuous,
  • visionary,
  • impressive,
  • lofty,
  • pretentious,
  • grandiose.
  •awkward (adjective)
  • un timelier,
  • un timeliest,
  • ill ease,
  • un timely,
  • in-opportune,
  • in opportune,
  • un-timely,
  • un-timelier,
  • most compromising,
  • more compromising,
  • un-timeliest,
  • un pleasant,
  • un-pleasant.
  •burdensome (adjective)
  • super-incumbent,
  • most crushing,
  • most superincumbent,
  • super incumbent,
  • more crushing,
  • more superincumbent,
  • most carking,
  • more carking.
  •byzantine (adjective)
  • de-tailed,
  • de tailed.
  •complex (adjective)
  • puzzling,
  • abstruse,
  • obscure,
  • perplexing,
  • involved,
  • convoluted.
  •complicated (adjective)
  • hi tech,
  • hi-tech,
  • wheels within wheels,
  • mega factor,
  • gasser.
  •confusing (adjective)
  • disorienting.
  •contrarious (adjective)
  • in-imitable,
  • in imitable.
  •crabby (adjective)
  • most mumpish,
  • chuffier,
  • chuffiest,
  • more mumpish.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • un-sociable,
  • ill humored,
  • mis anthropic,
  • most nastytempered,
  • more nastytempered,
  • ill-humored,
  • ill tempered,
  • bad tempered,
  • illtempered,
  • more nasty-tempered,
  • more ill humored,
  • most ill humored,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • nasty tempered,
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • huffy,
  • splenetic,
  • more ill-humored,
  • more nasty tempered,
  • most illhumored,
  • snappish,
  • badtempered,
  • nastytempered,
  • more splenetic,
  • illhumored,
  • morose,
  • most ill-humored,
  • most crabbed,
  • more illhumored,
  • un sociable,
  • gloomy,
  • most splenetic.
  •crotchety (adjective)
  • waspy,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • vinegary,
  • Crossgrained,
  • obstinate,
  • bearish,
  • cross-grained,
  • fractious.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • treacherous,
  • hairy.
  •deep (adjective)
  • hard to understand,
  • wisest,
  • sibylline,
  • hermetic,
  • orphic.
  •demanding (adjective)
  • most backbreaker,
  • importunate,
  • more backbreaker.
  •dicey (adjective)
  • Fluctuant,
  • iffy.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • scabrous,
  • grinding,
  • tough,
  • bothersome,
  • formidable,
  • tight,
  • stiff,
  • tricky,
  • wearisome,
  • thorny,
  • oppressive,
  • contrary,
  • wearying,
  • uphill,
  • harsh,
  • trying,
  • laborious,
  • cantankerous,
  • wearing,
  • ticklish,
  • cumbersome,
  • rough.
  •disagreeable (adjective)
  • unlikable,
  • whinier,
  • whiniest,
  • whiny,
  • pettish.
  •disturbing (adjective)
  • most discomposing,
  • more agitating,
  • more impeding,
  • dis-maying,
  • more foreboding,
  • dis-composing,
  • dis comforting,
  • dis composing,
  • fore-boding,
  • more discomforting,
  • most foreboding,
  • most agitating,
  • impeding,
  • fore boding,
  • most dismaying,
  • most discomforting,
  • dis-comforting,
  • dis maying,
  • more aggravating,
  • de-pressing,
  • de pressing,
  • most impeding,
  • most aggravating,
  • more dismaying,
  • more discomposing.
  •embarrassing (adjective)
  • uneasy,
  • un-seemly,
  • most discomfiting,
  • un seemlier,
  • more discomfiting,
  • most disconcerting,
  • dis concerting,
  • un-seemlier,
  • dis-concerting,
  • un seemliest,
  • un-easier,
  • more disconcerting,
  • more discommoding,
  • ex asperating,
  • most mortifying,
  • more discommodious,
  • most exasperating,
  • most bewildering,
  • more rattling,
  • most discommoding,
  • more mortifying,
  • un easier,
  • be-wildering,
  • un-easy,
  • un easy,
  • more distracting,
  • un-seemliest,
  • most troubling,
  • troubling,
  • un propitious,
  • more exasperating,
  • ex-asperating,
  • most rattling,
  • un easiest,
  • most distracting,
  • un-easiest,
  • un-propitious,
  • more troubling,
  • most discommodious,
  • be wildering,
  • dis commodious,
  • more bewildering,
  • dis-commodious,
  • un seemly.
  •exacting (adjective)
  • by book,
  • hyper-critical,
  • nit picking,
  • more nit picking,
  • hyper critical,
  • un sparing,
  • most nit picking,
  • stern,
  • un-sparing,
  • most nit-picking,
  • more nit-picking,
  • ex acting,
  • unsparing,
  • ex-acting.
  •fastidious (adjective)
  • over-nice,
  • overnice,
  • hard to please,
  • Stickling,
  • easily disgusted,
  • nit-picky,
  • overdelicate,
  • finical,
  • fussbudgety.
  •feisty (adjective)
  • full of pep,
  • excitable,
  • Gutty,
  • hotblooded,
  • zestful,
  • hot-blooded.
  •finicky (adjective)
  • most fussbudget,
  • more finicking,
  • more fussbudget,
  • most finicking.
  •fussy (adjective)
  • fuddyduddy,
  • ex act,
  • more conscionable,
  • more overfastidious,
  • fuddy duddy,
  • more picky picky,
  • more fuddy-duddy,
  • most picky picky,
  • more fuddyduddy,
  • more picky-picky,
  • most fuddy duddy,
  • most fuddy-duddy,
  • picky picky,
  • more fuddy duddy,
  • more pickypicky,
  • most overfastidious,
  • most picky-picky,
  • over-fastidious,
  • most conscionable,
  • most pickypicky,
  • pickypicky,
  • most fuddyduddy,
  • over fastidious,
  • ex-act.
  •hairy (adjective)
  • scarier,
  • risky,
  • scary.
  •hard on someone; hard to do (adjective)
  • not easy,
  • hard-won,
  • crucial,
  • no picnic,
  • galling,
  • irritating,
  • easier said than done,
  • gargantuan,
  • prohibitive,
  • immense,
  • titanic,
  • Difficile,
  • Operose,
  • rigid,
  • upstream,
  • unyielding,
  • heavy.
  •hazardous (adjective)
  • in securest,
  • pre carious,
  • un-safe,
  • pre-carious,
  • in-securest,
  • un-safer,
  • un safer,
  • in secure,
  • un-safest,
  • un safest,
  • un safe,
  • in-secure,
  • in securer,
  • in-securer.
  •incommodious (adjective)
  • in-commodious,
  • in commodious.
  •inconvenient (adjective)
  • dis-advantageous,
  • un-handy,
  • in convenient,
  • un-handiest,
  • un handiest,
  • un manageable,
  • pre judicial,
  • unhandier,
  • in expedient,
  • un wieldiest,
  • in-expedient,
  • un-seasonable,
  • un-suitable,
  • in-convenient,
  • pre-judicial,
  • re-mote,
  • un seasonable,
  • un-manageable,
  • un wieldy,
  • un-wieldy,
  • un suitable,
  • un wieldier,
  • un-handier,
  • unhandiest,
  • dis advantageous,
  • un-wieldiest,
  • un handier,
  • un-wieldier,
  • un handy.
  •inscrutable (adjective)
  • un-knowable,
  • more sphinxlike,
  • un-discoverable,
  • more poker faced,
  • un accountable,
  • un-explainable,
  • in-explicable,
  • most mysterial,
  • un discoverable,
  • in explicable,
  • un readable,
  • un-accountable,
  • most unknowable,
  • most poker-faced,
  • un fathomable,
  • more mysterial,
  • un-intelligible,
  • in-comprehensible,
  • most poker faced,
  • in comprehensible,
  • more poker-faced,
  • un explainable,
  • un knowable,
  • poker faced,
  • more unknowable,
  • in scrutable,
  • most sphinxlike,
  • un-readable,
  • most undiscoverable,
  • more undiscoverable,
  • in-scrutable.
  •insoluble (adjective)
  • unconcluded,
  • unsolved,
  • Irresolvable.
  •intricate (adjective)
  • most daedal,
  • more daedal,
  • most high-tech,
  • more high-tech,
  • most high tech,
  • most hightech,
  • more high tech,
  • hightech,
  • more hightech.
  •involved (adjective)
  • most ramified,
  • mazier,
  • maziest,
  • more ramified.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • crabby.
  •knotty (adjective)
  • up-hill,
  • most nodulous,
  • most reticular,
  • up hill,
  • Nodulous,
  • more nodulous,
  • more reticular,
  • reticular.
  •mean (adjective)
  • the lowest,
  • hardnosed,
  • low-down and dirty,
  • low-down dirty,
  • lowdown and dirty,
  • liverish,
  • toucher,
  • snide.
  •metaphysical (adjective)
  • jesuitic,
  • Supermundane,
  • suprahuman,
  • Supramundane,
  • Unfleshly,
  • supranatural,
  • non-physical,
  • nonphysical,
  • unphysical,
  • oversubtle,
  • non-material,
  • nonmaterial,
  • superhuman,
  • Discarnate.
  •mysterious (adjective)
  • un-natural,
  • un-canniest,
  • un cannier,
  • un-known,
  • more astrological,
  • most necromantic,
  • un-canny,
  • un canny,
  • un known,
  • un-cannier,
  • more necromantic,
  • most alchemistic,
  • magical,
  • un canniest,
  • most astrological,
  • more alchemistic.
  •mystifying (adjective)
  • mystifying.
  •obstinate (adjective)
  • refractory.
  •onerous (adjective)
  • more embittering,
  • most embittering,
  • over taxing,
  • most headache,
  • more plodding,
  • over-powering,
  • most plodding,
  • in tolerable,
  • over-taxing,
  • over powering,
  • most overtaxing,
  • more headache,
  • in-tolerable,
  • more overtaxing.
  •opaque (adjective)
  • Nubilous,
  • Amphibological,
  • Imperceptive.
  •painful (adjective)
  • most throbbing,
  • most saddening,
  • more hurting,
  • in-flamed,
  • more saddening,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • in flamed,
  • extremely bad,
  • nagging,
  • smarting,
  • more throbbing,
  • dis tasteful.
  •profound (adjective)
  • pro-founder,
  • more acroamatic,
  • pro founder,
  • pro-found,
  • pro found,
  • most acroamatic.
  •puzzling (adjective)
  • sur-prising,
  • mis leading,
  • mis-leading,
  • sur prising.
  •rebellious (adjective)
  • un-governable,
  • individualistic,
  • dis obedient,
  • dis-obedient,
  • dis loyal,
  • dis-orderly,
  • dis-affected,
  • more rioting,
  • dis-loyal,
  • in corrigible,
  • in-tractable,
  • more anarchistic,
  • most rioting,
  • dis orderly,
  • in tractable,
  • more insurrectionary,
  • more sabotaging,
  • most insurrectionary,
  • in-corrigible,
  • most anarchistic,
  • most sabotaging,
  • more attacking,
  • most attacking,
  • dis affected.
  •recondite (adjective)
  • little known,
  • little-known.
  •refractory (adjective)
  • un-yielding,
  • un yielding,
  • un responsive,
  • head-strong,
  • un-responsive.
  •rugged (adjective)
  • unsmoothest,
  • more unlevel,
  • un-smoother,
  • more furrowed,
  • un smooth,
  • un-smoothest,
  • in-clement,
  • most roughhewn,
  • un smoother,
  • roughhewn,
  • un-refined,
  • un-smooth,
  • un polished,
  • scraggier,
  • un-even,
  • more asperous,
  • unsmoother,
  • in temperate,
  • most unlevel,
  • lumpy,
  • more roughhewn,
  • un smoothest,
  • un-level,
  • un refined,
  • most furrowed,
  • in clement,
  • un even,
  • weather beaten,
  • un level,
  • most asperous,
  • in-temperate.
  •serious (adjective)
  • strictly business,
  • sobering,
  • playing hard ball,
  • no joke,
  • unhumorous,
  • no laughing matter,
  • smoking,
  • out for blood,
  • unamusing,
  • feller,
  • of consequence.
  •strained (adjective)
  • in a state,
  • unrelaxed,
  • nervous wreck,
  • wrecker,
  • at end of rope,
  • strung out,
  • hard put,
  • taut,
  • unglued.
  •tall (adjective)
  • un-believable,
  • over blown,
  • embellished,
  • most embellished,
  • un believable,
  • over-blown,
  • more embellished.
  •taxing (adjective)
  • most stressful,
  • more stressful,
  • Sapping,
  • more sapping,
  • most sapping,
  • most enervating,
  • more enervating.
  •treacherous (adjective)
  • un-stablest,
  • un-stabler,
  • un-dependable,
  • un stablest,
  • un-reliable,
  • un stable,
  • un stabler,
  • un dependable,
  • more dissembled,
  • most dissembled,
  • un-stable,
  • un reliable.
  •troublesome (adjective)
  • more infestive,
  • more murder,
  • Harassing,
  • more vexing,
  • dis-quieting,
  • dis quieting,
  • most vexing,
  • most infestive,
  • in-festive,
  • in festive,
  • most murder,
  • more harassing,
  • most harassing.
  •uncomfortable (adjective)
  • most ill fitting,
  • most ill-fitting,
  • ill fitting,
  • most illfitting,
  • more ill fitting,
  • illfitting,
  • un-comfortable,
  • torturing,
  • more illfitting,
  • more ill-fitting,
  • un comfortable,
  • more torturing,
  • most torturing.
  •unforgiving (adjective)
  • un-kindest,
  • un kind,
  • un charitable,
  • un-forgiving,
  • un kindest,
  • un-kind,
  • un forgiving,
  • un-kinder,
  • un kinder,
  • unforgiving,
  • un-charitable.
  •ungracious (adjective)
  • unpleasing.
  •unintelligible (adjective)
  • incomprehensible.
  •unmanageable socially (adjective)
  • unamenable,
  • argumentative,
  • boorish,
  • obstreperous,
  • oafish,
  • picky,
  • impolite,
  • rude,
  • unaccommodating,
  • grim.
  •unsettling (adjective)
  • un-settling,
  • un settling.
  •upsetting (adjective)
  • up-setting,
  • up setting.
  •wicked (adjective)
  • wicked.

• n.

  •
  • moody,
  • careful,
  • short-tempered,
  • irascible,
  • perverse,
  • temperamental,
  • hot-tempered,
  • bad-tempered,
  • irritable.
  •
  • untimely,
  • unseemly,
  • unsuitable,
  • unsuited,
  • inappropriate,
  • inopportune,
  • unbecoming,
  • improper.
  •
  • exigent.
  •
  • comfort.
  •
  • support,
  • attitude.
  •arduous (noun)
  • arduous.
  •baffling (noun)
  • baffling.
  •catchy (noun)
  • catchy.
  •challenging (noun)
  • challenging.
  •difficult (noun)
  • vexed,
  • unenviable,
  • rocky,
  • problematical,
  • sticky,
  • nasty,
  • problematic,
  • hard-fought,
  • delicate,
  • embarrassing,
  • stubborn,
  • herculean.

• v.

  •closed (verb)
  • impassable.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • costly,
  • indigestible,
  • sophisticated,
  • insupportable,
  • insolvable,
  • incoherent,
  • byzantine,
  • intrusive,
  • arcane,
  • advanced,
  • mountainous,
  • insurmountable,
  • unclear,
  • tangled,
  • insuperable,
  • fiddly,
  • amiss,
  • devilish,
  • offending,
  • invidious,
  • opaque,
  • time-consuming,
  • unfeasible,
  • rocket science,
  • punitive,
  • self-defeating,
  • unfathomable,
  • Dizzying,
  • contentious,
  • hard-earned,
  • provocative,
  • kafkaesque,
  • highfalutin,
  • messy,
  • ornery,
  • expensive,
  • fraught,
  • fathomless,
  • bureaucratic,
  • recherche,
  • mind-boggling,
  • intolerable,
  • schismatic,
  • persnickety,
  • high-flown,
  • divisive,
  • unaccountable,
  • straitened,
  • indecipherable,
  • enigmatic,
  • tendentious,
  • obstructive,
  • effortful,
  • recalcitrant,
  • murphy's law,
  • cerebral,
  • disjointed,
  • impenetrable,
  • garbled,
  • disruptive,
  • tortuous,
  • problem,
  • unbridgeable.
  •
  • Fiendish,
  • ambiguous,
  • bewildering,
  • dim,
  • baroque,
  • fanciful,
  • contorted,
  • intractable,
  • corrosive,
  • froward,
  • impossible,
  • incendiary,
  • ungovernable,
  • confused,
  • fuzzy,
  • inflammatory,
  • mischievous,
  • undesirable,
  • generous,
  • rogue,
  • wayward,
  • inextricable,
  • sensitive,
  • balky.
  •
  • weighty,
  • chronic,
  • crippling,
  • inconvenient,
  • hypersensitive,
  • precision,
  • gnarly,
  • rigorous,
  • unrelenting,
  • elaborate.
  •
  • narrow,
  • intense,
  • intensive.
  •
  • fancy,
  • critical.
  •
  • sensitivity,
  • bad.
  •
  • gray.
  •abstruse
  • abstract.
  •arcane
  • esoteric.
  •circuitous
  • labyrinthine.
  •exhausting
  • nerve-racking.
  •forced
  • labored.
  •mysterious
  • elusive.
  •oppressive
  • repressive.
  •tough
  • hard going.
  •unexplainable
  • inexplicable.
  •unobtainable
  • inaccessible.

Paraphrases for Difficult:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    problematic, complex, delicate, laborious, troublesome, awkward, thorny, serious, arduous, problematical, challenging, knotty, rugged, tough.
  • Proper noun, singular
    challenging, tough.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    arduous, challenging.
  • Verb, past tense
    complicated.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    painful, dire, severe, distressing, sensitive, impossible, inconvenient, burdensome, stressful, precarious, painstaking, elusive, demanding, formidable, strenuous, uncomfortable, heavy, critical, impractical, contentious, convoluted, troubling, simple, unwieldy, sophisticated, picky, strained, frustrating, tiresome, exacting, easy, unlikely, uneasy, time-consuming, intricate, fragile, controversial, crucial, terrible, unclear, fraught, embarrassing, tight, touchy, straightforward, poverty-stricken, poor, distressed, struggling, costly, limited, grave, adverse, stark, unpleasant, tense, herculean, bitter, uncertain, wrong, fussy, harrowing, confusing, unfavourable, grim, messy, ambitious, disadvantaged, weighty, little, bumpy, acute, doubtful, dangerous, choosy, desperate, sluggish, turbulent, fierce, enormous, cruel, facile, inclement, hard-won, reluctant, impoverished, rocky, great, questionable, tiring, impracticable, tremendous, lengthy, different, feasible, expensive, user-friendly, unable, spiny, dramatic, heavy-duty, immense, susceptible, slow, nasty, durum, needy, sad, perilous, hardto, significant, sore, evil, intensive, disagreeable, major, awful, important, huge, hard-to-reach, convenient, comfortable, Beleaguered, annoying, elaborate, unfortunate, multifaceted.
  • Proper noun, singular
    constraints, Casualties, questions, issues, concerns, Difficile.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Difficile.
  • Adverb
    easy, Difficile, scarcely.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    are, Difficile.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    complicated, daunting, intractable, cumbersome, onerous, difficulty, troubled, uphill, tortuous.
  • Proper noun, singular
    difficulty, Difficulties.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    difficulty.

Antonyms for Difficult:

• adj.

  • all
    manageable, easy.
  • complicated; hard to comprehend
    clear.
  • hard on someone; hard to do
    nice, plain, calm, simple, facile, effortless, uncomplicated, straightforward, friendly, free, trivial, helpful, sociable.
  • Other antonyms:
    relaxed, slight, accessible, soothing, doable, achievable, comforting, undemanding, mindless, gentle, hands down, pleasant, trifling.

Homophones for Difficult:

• difficulty, dibasic salt.