\Dif"fi*cult\, a. [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}.

\Dif"fi*cult\, v. t.
To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W.
Temple.