difficult
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Sense: Adjective: involving hard work
Synonyms:
challenging Collocations, hard Collocations, tough Collocations, laborious, arduous, strenuous, demanding Collocations, exacting, backbreaking, not easy, hard-won, stiff Collocations, no picnic, rigorous, trying Collocations, wearisome, onerous, uphill, taxing, formidable, exhausting, unyielding, grueling, gruelling , hard to do
Antonyms:
easy Collocations, painless, effortless, accessible Collocations, undemanding, doable, unchallenging
Sense: Adjective: hard to understand
Synonyms:
tricky Collocations, hard Collocations, tough Collocations, challenging Collocations, complicated Collocations, complex Collocations, intricate Collocations, confusing Collocations, involved Collocations, perplexing, abstruse, knotty, thorny, puzzling, bewildering, confounding, baffling, incomprehensible, unintelligible, over sb's head, beyond sb's depth, beyond sb's comprehension, beyond comprehension, hard to understand, hard to solve
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Sense: Adjective: hard to manage
Synonyms:
unaccommodating, uncooperative, irritable, finicky, obstinate, stubborn Collocations, intractable, mulish, pigheaded , willful, wilful , strong-willed, bullheaded , exasperating, impossible Collocations
Antonyms:
undemanding, manageable, unfussy, easy to deal with, easygoing Collocations, laid-back , cooperative, pleasant Collocations, amiable, relaxed Collocations