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hard on someone; hard to do adj.
complicated; hard to comprehend adj.
unmanageable socially adj.

ADJECTIVE

hard on someone; hard to do

Synonyms

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ambitious arduous burdensome challenging crucial demanding laborious onerous painful problematic severe strenuous tough troublesome

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backbreaker bothersome difficile easier said than done effortful exacting formidable galling gargantuan hard-won heavy herculean immense intricate irritating labored no picnic not easy operose problem prohibitive rigid stiff titanic toilsome trying unyielding uphill upstream wearisome

Antonyms

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easy effortless facile helpful nice trivial

WEAK

calm free friendly manageable plain simple sociable straightforward uncomplicated

ADJECTIVE

complicated; hard to comprehend

Synonyms

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complex confusing delicate troublesome

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abstract abstruse baffling bewildering confounding dark deep enigmatic enigmatical entangled esoteric formidable hard to explain hard to solve hidden inexplicable intricate involved knotty labyrinthine loose meandering mysterious mystical mystifying nice obscure obstinate paradoxical perplexing problematical profound puzzling rambling subtle tangled thorny ticklish unclear unfathomable unintelligible vexing

Antonyms

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clear easy

WEAK

calm free friendly manageable plain simple sociable straightforward uncomplicated

ADJECTIVE

unmanageable socially

Synonyms

STRONGEST

demanding grim intractable tough troublesome

WEAK

argumentative bearish boorish dark fastidious finicky fractious fussy hard to please impolite irritable oafish obstreperous perverse picky refractory rigid rude tiresome trying unaccommodating unamenable

Antonyms

STRONGEST

easy facile nice

WEAK

calm free friendly manageable plain simple sociable straightforward uncomplicated

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more difficult

Communications were becoming more difficult so messages to his wife would simply be passed on by Naum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

“There’s nothing more difficult than taking something that’s really, really good and trying to make it better,” says Daniel Harding, newly appointed music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Remembering information, thinking clearly, and processing new details can become more difficult over time.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Teng also describes how the hackers used "a self-destruct mechanism that destroyed tooling and traces as they went, making it more difficult for us to trace and investigate".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The rest of that day had been more difficult to remember.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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