Difficult Synonyms

Difficult synonyms such as "bloody-minded, above one's head, adverse, awkward, and balky". Difficult is an adjective, and its antonyms are easy, straightforward, and simple. Here are 134 another word for difficult with example sentences.

Another word for Difficult

134 other ways to say difficult.

1. hard

  • wildering
  • wearying
  • wearisome
  • wearing
  • unfathomable
  • tough
  • toilsome
  • tiring
  • ticklish
  • thorny
  • strenuous
  • sticky
  • recondite
  • puzzling
  • punishing
  • problematic
  • perplexing
  • painful
  • over one's head
  • onerous
  • obscure
  • no picnic
  • mystifying
  • mysterious
  • laborious
  • knotty
  • knackering
  • killing
  • involved
  • involuted
  • involute
  • intricate
  • impenetrable
  • hellish
  • heavy
  • hard
  • gruelling
  • grinding
  • gnarly
  • fiddly
  • fatiguing
  • exigent
  • exhausting
  • enigmatic
  • demanding
  • confusing
  • complicated
  • complex
  • burdensome
  • beyond one
  • baffling
  • back-breaking
  • arduous
  • abstruse
  • abstract
  • above one's head

2. inconvenient

3. troublesome

  • unreasonable
  • unmanageable
  • unhelpful
  • uncooperative
  • unamenable
  • unaccommodating
  • trying
  • troublesome
  • tiresome
  • thrawn
  • stubborn
  • stroppy
  • refractory
  • recalcitrant
  • pig-headed
  • picky
  • perverse
  • perfectionist
  • particular
  • over-particular
  • obstreperous
  • obstinate
  • intractable
  • hypercritical
  • hard to satisfy
  • hard to please
  • fussy
  • froward
  • fractious
  • finicky
  • finical
  • fastidious
  • exasperating
  • disobliging
  • demanding
  • cussed
  • critical
  • contumacious
  • contrary
  • contrarious
  • choosy
  • bull-headed
  • bolshie
  • bloody-minded
  • balky
  • awkward

How to Use difficult in a Sentence

Dignity helps in facing difficult situations.

Facing reality can be difficult.

He faced a difficult problem today.

It was difficult; nevertheless, he succeeded.

Learning a new language is difficult.

Making that decision felt difficult.

Restricted hours make planning difficult.

She studied hard, although the exam was difficult.

The workload became overwhelmingly difficult quickly.

Uncertainty makes planning quite difficult.