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difficult	1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labour, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the agent; as, a difficult task; hard work is not always difficult work; a difficult operation in surgery; a difficult passage in an author. "There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone." (Hawthorne) 2. Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person. Synonym: Arduous, painful, crabbed, perplexed, laborious, unaccommodating, troublesome. See Arduous. Origin: From Difficulty. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
difficulty	Origin: L. Difficultas, fr. Difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. Difficulte. See Facile. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. "Not being able to promote them [the interests of life] on account of the difficulty of the region." (James Byrne) 2. Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labour or perplexity, and requires skill perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology. "They lie under some difficulties by reason of the emperor's displeasure." (Addison) 3. A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil. "Measures for terminating all local difficulties." (Bancroft) 4. Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties. "In days of difficulty and pressure." (Tennyson) Synonym: Impediment, obstacle, obstruction, embarrassment, perplexity, exigency, distress, trouble, trial, objection, cavil. See Impediment. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

difficult

1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labour, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the agent; as, a difficult task; hard work is not always difficult work; a difficult operation in surgery; a difficult passage in an author. "There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone." (Hawthorne)
2. Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
Synonym: Arduous, painful, crabbed, perplexed, laborious, unaccommodating, troublesome. See Arduous.
Origin: From Difficulty.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)

difficulty

Origin: L. Difficultas, fr. Difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. Difficulte. See Facile.
1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. "Not being able to promote them [the interests of life] on account of the difficulty of the region." (James Byrne)
2. Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labour or perplexity, and requires skill perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology. "They lie under some difficulties by reason of the emperor's displeasure." (Addison)
3. A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil. "Measures for terminating all local difficulties." (Bancroft)
4. Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties. "In days of difficulty and pressure." (Tennyson)
Synonym: Impediment, obstacle, obstruction, embarrassment, perplexity, exigency, distress, trouble, trial, objection, cavil. See Impediment.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)