Difficult Synonyms

134 difficult synonyms include hard, strenuous, arduous, laborious, heavy, tough, onerous, burdensome, demanding, and punishing. Difficult is an adjective, and its antonyms are easy, straightforward, and simple. Here are some additional synonyms for "difficult" with example sentences.

Another word for Difficult

134 other ways to say difficult.

1. hard

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

3. troublesome

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

after finishing the difficult puzzle.

Dignity helps in facing difficult situations.

Each test was more difficult than the last.

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.