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What is the adjective for difficult?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs difficilitate, difficult and difficultate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

difficult
  1. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
  2. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
  3. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. arduous, challenging, demanding, hard, excruciating, grueling, harsh, rigorous, strenuous, testing, tough, backbreaking, daunting, exacting, exhausting, fatiguing, gruelling, laborious, onerous, punishing, taxing, tortuous, trying, backbreaker, bruising, burdensome, debilitating, draining, insufferable, painstaking, ponderous, rough, tiring, torturous, unforgiving, wearisome, wearying, agonising, agonizing, back-breaking, brutal, formidable, harrowing, hellish, immense, intense, intimidating, severe, tiresome, troublesome … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “He prepared himself for the difficult task of running the marathon.”
      “Bobby had to give up on the Sudoku puzzle as it was too difficult.”
      “She quit her job because her boss had a penchant for being difficult.”
difficile
  1. (obsolete) Hard to work with; stubborn.
  2. (obsolete) Difficult.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. painful, laborious, hard, tedious, tough, arduous, strenuous, trying, challenging, difficult, formidable, gruelling, heavy, onerous, ponderous, backbreaking, bruising, burdensome, dour, draining, exacting, excruciating, rough, severe, tiresome, wearisome, brutal, debilitating, demanding, dogged, extreme, grinding, grueling, harsh, irksome, labored, punishing, rigorous, rugged, serious, tall, taxing, testing, tiring, toilsome, tortuous, torturous, unremitting, uphill, wearying … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The Romans used to say nihil difficile volenti, nothing is difficult for those who want it.”
      “He cultured the faecal bacteria of healthy mice and tried various combinations of them on animals infected with C. difficile.”
      “But even the difficile Lawrence was preferable to the strain at the office.”
difficultest
  1. superlative form of difficult: most difficult
  2. Synonyms:
      3. hardest, harshest, toughest, roughest, immensest, intensest, severest, fiercest, hairiest, painfullest, unpleasantest, weightiest, ambitiousest, grimmest, hardest-won, heaviest, cruelest, mightiest, thorniest, viciousest, awfullest, drudgiest, extremest, stickiest, diciest, ruggedest, seriousest, sweatiest, tallest, most arduous, most challenging, most demanding, most excruciating, most grueling, most rigorous, most strenuous, most testing, most backbreaking, most daunting, most exacting, most exhausting, most gruelling, most laborious, most onerous, most punishing, most taxing, most tortuous, most trying, most burdensome, most debilitating … more
difficulter
  1. comparative degree of difficult
  2. Synonyms:
      3. harder, harsher, tougher, rougher, immenser, intenser, severer, fiercer, hairier, painfuller, unpleasanter, weightier, ambitiouser, grimmer, harder-won, heavier, crueler, mightier, thornier, viciouser, awfuller, drudgier, extremer, stickier, dicier, ruggeder, seriouser, sweatier, taller, more arduous, more challenging, more demanding, more excruciating, more grueling, more rigorous, more strenuous, more testing, more backbreaking, more daunting, more exacting, more exhausting, more gruelling, more laborious, more onerous, more punishing, more taxing, more tortuous, more trying, more burdensome, more debilitating … more
difficilitated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of difficilitate
difficilitating
  1. present participle of difficilitate
difficulted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of difficult
difficulting
  1. present participle of difficult
difficultated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of difficultate
difficultating
  1. present participle of difficultate
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