Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - difficult

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Something that is difficult is not easy to do, understand, or deal with. The lack of childcare provisions made it difficult for single mothers to get jobs... It was a very difficult decision to make... We’re living in difficult times... = hard ? easy ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf, it v-link ADJ -ing 2. Someone who is difficult behaves in an unreasonable and unhelpful way. I had a feeling you were going to be difficult about this. = awkward ADJ