Difficult

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] Sir W. Temple.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

2. Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.

Synonyms: Arduous; painful; crabbed; perplexed; laborious; unaccommodating; troublesome. See Arduous.