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difficult

English

Etymology

From Middle English difficult (ca. 1400), a back-formation from difficultee (whence modern difficulty), from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (hard to do, difficult), from dis- + facilis (easy); see difficile. Replaced native Middle English earveþ (difficult, hard), from Old English earfoþe (difficult, laborious, full of hardship), cognate to German Arbeit (work).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?d?f?k?lt/

Adjective

difficult (comparative difficulter or more difficult, superlative difficultest or most difficult)

  1. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
    However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.
    • There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world, alone.
  2. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
  3. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.

Usage notes

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. Examples include a difficult operation in surgery and a difficult passage by an author (that is, a passage which is hard to understand).

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

  • difficultly

Translations

Verb

difficult (third-person singular simple present difficults, present participle difficulting, simple past and past participle difficulted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
    • August 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson
      their Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions , which had difficulted the peace

Further reading

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

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perverse

English

Etymology

From Old French pervers, from Latin perversum, past participle of pervertere > per- 'thoroughly' + vertere 'to turn'. So, "thoroughly turned".

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /p??v?s/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??v??s/
  • Hyphenation: per?verse
  • Rhymes: -??(?)s

Adjective

perverse (comparative more perverse or perverser, superlative most perverse or perversest)

  1. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
    •     I felt most alive when I felt most perverse. At college, sleeping with boys had a perverse quality. I slept with a boy friend of one of my girl friends, and I was proud of it. I bragged about it because I had done something perverse. Another time, I slept with a man, fat and ugly, who paid me for it. I was very proud. I felt I had the ability to do something different.
  2. Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.
  3. (law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.

Antonyms

  • docile
  • innocent

Derived terms

  • perversely
  • perverseness
  • perversity

Translations

Anagrams

  • persever, preserve

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

perverse

  1. Inflected form of pervers

French

Adjective

perverse

  1. feminine singular of pervers

Anagrams

  • préserve, préservé

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

perverse

  1. inflection of pervers:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

perverse

  1. feminine plural of perverso

Latin

Participle

perverse

  1. vocative masculine singular of perversus

References

  • perverse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • perverse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • perverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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