{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈdɪfəkəlt" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/difficult.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/difficult.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (southern England)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "E:\\04_Source\\Private\\Source\\Web\\99_Test\\BackEnd\\PythonTest01/dic/audio/us/difficult.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/difficult.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English difficult (ca. 1400), a back-formation from difficultee (whence modern difficulty), from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile. Replaced native Middle English earveþ (“difficult, hard”), from Old English earfoþe (“difficult, laborious, full of hardship”), cognate to German Arbeit (“work”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.\nHowever, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater. \n1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 17, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world, alone.\n2008, Daniel Goleman, Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, →ISBN, page 199:In adults, the same kind of anger has been studied in people trying to solve a very difficult math problem. Though the tough math problem is very frustrating, there is an active attempt to solve the problem and meet the goal.\n2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it." }, { "mean": "(often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.\nStop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Unable or unwilling.\n1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:“I hope, madam,” said Jones, “my charming Lady Bellaston will be as difficult to believe anything against one who is so sensible of the many obligations she hath conferred upon him.”" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.\nAugust 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson\ntheir Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions , which had difficulted the peace" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "difficult in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. C. Merriam, 1913\ndifficult in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911\n\n\n\n\n -->\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=difficultoldid=72386799\"\n\t\tCategories: English terms inherited from Middle EnglishEnglish terms derived from Middle EnglishEnglish back-formationsEnglish terms derived from Old FrenchEnglish terms derived from LatinEnglish 3-syllable wordsEnglish terms with IPA pronunciationEnglish terms with audio linksEnglish lemmasEnglish adjectivesEnglish terms with quotationsEnglish terms with usage examplesEnglish terms with obsolete sensesEnglish verbsEnglish transitive verbsHidden categories: English undefined derivationsQuotation templates to be cleanedTerms with redundant transliterationsTerms with redundant transliterations/yueTerms with redundant transliterations/cmnTerms with manual transliterations different from the automated onesTerms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones/wuuRequests for translations into DhivehiRequests for translations into OriyaRequests for translations into WalloonRequests for translations into White HmongRequests for translations into YorubaRequests for translations into Zhuang\n\t\n\n\n\n\tNavigation menu\n\t\n\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tPersonal tools\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tNot logged inTalkContributionsCreate accountLog in\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tNamespaces\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tEntryDiscussion\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tEnglish\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tViews\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tReadEditHistory\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tMore\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\tNavigation\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tMain PageCommunity portalPreferencesRequested entriesRecent changesRandom entryHelpGlossaryDonationsContact us\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\tTools\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkPage informationCite this page\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\tPrint/export\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable version\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\tIn other languages\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tÆngliscالعربيةবাংলাBrezhonegCatalàČeštinaCorsuCymraegDanskEestiΕλληνικάEspañolEuskaraFrançais한국어Հայերենहिन्दीIdoInterlingueIsiZuluÍslenskaItalianoಕನ್ನಡҚазақшаKurdîКыргызчаLimburgsMagyarമലയാളംMaltiမြန်မာဘာသာNa Vosa VakavitiNederlands日本語NorskOccitanOromooភាសាខ្មែរPolskiPortuguêsРусскийGagana SamoaSängöSimple EnglishسنڌيSuomiSvenskaதமிழ்తెలుగుไทยTürkçeاردوTiếng Việt中文\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t This page was last edited on 29 March 2023, at 09:49.\n\tText is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.\n\n\n\t\n\tPrivacy policy\n\tAbout Wiktionary\n\tDisclaimers\n\tMobile view\n\tDevelopers\n\tStatistics\n\tCookie statement\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n(RLQ=window.RLQ||).push(function(){mw.config.set({\"wgHostname\":\"mw2438\",\"wgBackendResponseTime\":68,\"wgPageParseReport\":{\"limitreport\":{\"cputime\":\"0.832\",\"walltime\":\"1.092\",\"ppvisitednodes\":{\"value\":7370,\"limit\":1000000},\"postexpandincludesize\":{\"value\":118038,\"limit\":2097152},\"templateargumentsize\":{\"value\":11393,\"limit\":2097152},\"expansiondepth\":{\"value\":13,\"limit\":100},\"expensivefunctioncount\":{\"value\":2,\"limit\":500},\"unstrip-depth\":{\"value\":0,\"limit\":20},\"unstrip-size\":{\"value\":1133,\"limit\":5000000},\"entityaccesscount\":{\"value\":0,\"limit\":400},\"timingprofile\":},\"scribunto\":{\"limitreport-timeusage\":{\"value\":\"0.607\",\"limit\":\"10.000\"},\"limitreport-memusage\":{\"value\":28881537,\"limit\":52428800}},\"cachereport\":{\"origin\":\"mw2420\",\"timestamp\":\"20230401162106\",\"ttl\":1814400,\"transientcontent\":false}}});});" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }