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difficult

音節dif・fi・cult 発音記号/dífɪk`ʌlt, ‐kəlt｜‐kəlt/

【形容詞】

(more difficult; most difficult)

1 a 困難な; 難しい，理解しにくい (⇔easy) 《★【類語】 ⇒→hard B》.

用例

a difficult problem 難問. at a difficult age 難しい年ごろに. He was placed in difficult circumstances. 彼は苦境にあった[苦しい目にあっていた]. It's difficult to convince him. 彼を説得するのは難しい.

b 【叙述的用法の形容詞】 〔+for+(代)名〕〔人には〕難しくて.

用例

This software is too difficult for me. このソフトウェアは私には難しすぎる. It's difficult for me to stop smoking. たばこをやめるのは私には難しいことだ.

c 〔+to do〕〈…するのに〉困難で[な], 難しくて.

用例

The place is difficult to reach. その場所はたどり着くのが大変だ 《★【用法】 The place が reach の目的語の関係に立つ場合の表現で, It's difficult to reach the place. と書き換え可能》. Greek is a difficult language to master. ギリシャ語は習得しにくい言語だ. He's difficult to get on with. 彼は付き合いにくい人だ.

d 【叙述的用法の形容詞】 〔+of+(代)名〕〔…が〕難しくて.

用例

The place is difficult of access. その場所は接近しがたい.

2 〈人が〉気難しい.

用例

a difficult person 気難しい人. Don't be so difficult. そんなに気難しくしないでくれ.

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英和医学用語集

difficult

困難

ライフサイエンス辞書

difficult

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困難な, 難しい

関連語

arduous, difficulty, distress, hard, intractable, labored, recalcitrant, trouble

用例

be difficult to do [〜するのは難しい]

Prevalence rates for CSA are difficult to obtain. (Curr Opin Pediatr)

Evolution of the mammalian neocortex is difficult to examine directly. (Curr Opin Neurobiol)

it is difficult to do [〜するのは難しい]

It is difficult to compare these trials due to differences in patient age. (J Clin Oncol)

It is difficult to detect because patients present with a wide array of symptoms and signs. (Lancet)

It is difficult to mix solutions in microchannels. (Science)

difficultの共起表現

日本語WordNet(英和)

difficult

【形容詞】

1

簡単でない

(not easy)

a difficult task 難しい仕事 nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access 崖の営巣地は近づくのが難しい difficult times 困難な時

2

なかなか抑えられない

(hard to control)

a difficult child, 気難しい子供、

>>「difficult」に関する類語一覧

EDR日英対訳辞書

difficult

晦冥さ；かい渋だ；メタフィジカルだ；難しい；晦渋；晦暝さ；気難しい；気むつかしい；偏屈だ；偏窟だ；難解だ；晦渋だ；御難だ；気難かしい；気むずかしい

Weblio英語表現辞典

difficult

訳語 難しく；苦手な；ハードルが高い

斎藤和英大辞典

difficult

難い；仕にくい；やにっこい；重い；六かしい、難しい；困難；面倒；難儀；苦しい

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Difficult

難い

Weblio英和対訳辞書

difficult

難い, 手ごわい, 手強い, むずい, 悩ましげ, 注文が多い, 始末が悪い, 辛い, 難しい, がん, 手のかかる, 手の掛かる, 苦しい, 住みにくい, 住み難い, 難し, 悩ましい, 取りにくい, 取り難い, 微妙, やり難い, 遣り難い, 遣りにくい, 骨, 注文の多い, 大変

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difficult

面倒な, 角のある, 〈むずかしい〉・困難な, 楽でない, 難儀な

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difficult [hard] (to understand [solve])

難解な

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Wiktionary英語版

difficult

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2013/05/21 16:31 UTC 版)

語源

From difficulty, from Middle English difficultee, from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɪfɪkəlt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈdɪfɪˌkʌlt/, /ˈdɪfɪkl̩t/

形容詞

difficult (comparative more difficult, superlative most difficult)

1. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
   • 2008, Daniel Goleman, Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (ISBN 0307483762), 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.

2. (often of a person, または a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
   • Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.

使用する際の注意点

Difficult implies that considerable mental effort or physical skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the doer; as, a difficult task. Thus, "hard" is not always synonymous with difficult: Other examples include a difficult operation in surgery and a difficult passage by an author (that is, a passage which is hard to understand).

同意語

• burdensome, cumbersome, hard
• see also Wikisaurus:difficult

派生語

• difficultly

動詞

difficult (三人称単数 現在形 difficults, 現在分詞 difficulting, 過去形および過去分詞形 difficulted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Sir W. Temple to this entry?)

統計情報

• Most common English words before 1923: boat · heaven · v. · #800: difficult · top · tone · silent

外部リンク

• difficult in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• difficult in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911