difícil

Borrowed from Latin difficilis.

difícil (epicene, plural difíciles)

1. difficult (hard, not easy)

   Antonym: facil

• dificultá

Borrowed from Latin difficilis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [diˈfi.sil]

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difícil m or f (masculine and feminine plural difícils)

1. difficult

   Antonym: fàcil

• difícilment

• dificultar
• dificultat

• “difícil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Learned borrowing from Latin difficilis.

difícil m or f (plural difíciles)

1. difficult

   Antonym: fácil

• “difícil”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Learned borrowing from Latin difficilis.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /di.ˈfi.siw/
• Hyphenation: di‧fí‧cil

difícil m or f (plural difíceis)

1. difficult, hard

   Antonym: fácil

   • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 240:

     Era difícil dizer se a professora os ouvira, pois seu rosto estava oculto pelas sombras.

     It was difficult to tell whether the teacher had heard them, because her face was hidden by the shadows.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:difícil.

• dificilmente

• “difícil” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Borrowed from Latin difficilis. Compare obsolete English difficile.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /diˈfiθil/ [d̪iˈfi.θil]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /diˈfisil/ [d̪iˈfi.sil]

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -iθil
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -isil
• Syllabification: di‧fí‧cil

difícil m or f (masculine and feminine plural difíciles, superlative dificilísimo)

1. difficult, hard, tough, challenging, rough, tricky, trying, arduous, testing
2. unlikely (i.e. improbable)
3. awkward (e.g. situation or position)
4. (figurative) rocky, bumpy (e.g. start, road)

• fácil

• “difícil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014