Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Difficult; hard; arduous; perplexing.
- Reluctant; scrupulous.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn.
Etymologies
- From late Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis, from dis- + facilis ("easy"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And there's actually a very specific experiment I'd like you to discuss, if you could, and that had to do with a patient who had a C. difficile, which is a bacterial infection that causes such extreme diarrhea that some elderly people die as a result.”
“The study examined hospital patients infected with the drug-resistant bacteria Clostridium difficile, which is infamous for causing diarrhea in hospitalized patients and responsible for more deaths in the United States than all other intestinal infections combined.”
“Clostridium difficile, which is especially lethal to the elderly, suggest it prevents recurrence far better than currently used medications.”
“Food and Drug Administration next week for a clearance to market its Illumigene molecular test for C. difficile, which is currently undergoing a clinical trial.”
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“The BSM-2000's detection method for detecting anthrax can also be used for detecting C. difficile, which is also a spore forming bacteria," said Mr. Amir Ettehadieh, UNDT's Director of Research and Development.”
“We now face the opposite problem of being unable to contain the growth and spread of the same bacterium, now called Clostridium difficile, which is a frequent cause of infectious colitis, usually occurring as a complication of antibiotic therapy, in elderly hospitalized patients.”
“Optimer Pharmaceuticals is working on several potential new drugs including fidaxomicin, a treatment for the bacterial infection Clostridium difficile which is often contracted in hospitals.”
“difficile', though Hodder had never found her so.”
“Partout où le poids de la tradition est importante il y est difficile d'impulser le progrès tel le conçoit le monde contemporain.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘difficile’.
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
tulle, argand, friable, corolla, lives of stir, difficile, rime, inveigh, feuilleton, peristyle, refulgence, wainscoting and 98 more...
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ADW2
nudnik, temper, intercalate, cleave, scowl, chapfallen, malapropos, disport, annals, paean, paradisiacal, whet and 362 more...
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Difficult to Understand
Words meaning difficult to understand
abstruse, subtile, subtle, covert, mystic, mystical, mysterious, diffuse, abstract, exquisite, obnubilous, obnubilate and 12 more...
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