Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to difficult
Participle: difficulted
Gerund: difficulting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | difficult |
| you | difficult |
| he;she;it | difficults |
| we | difficult |
| you | difficult |
| they | difficult |
Perfect
| I | have difficulted |
| you | have difficulted |
| he;she;it | has difficulted |
| we | have difficulted |
| you | have difficulted |
| they | have difficulted |
Past
| I | difficulted |
| you | difficulted |
| he;she;it | difficulted |
| we | difficulted |
| you | difficulted |
| they | difficulted |
Pluperfect
| I | had difficulted |
| you | had difficulted |
| he;she;it | had difficulted |
| we | had difficulted |
| you | had difficulted |
| they | had difficulted |
Future
| I | will difficult |
| you | will difficult |
| he;she;it | will difficult |
| we | will difficult |
| you | will difficult |
| they | will difficult |
Future Perfect
| I | will have difficulted |
| you | will have difficulted |
| he;she;it | will have difficulted |
| we | will have difficulted |
| you | will have difficulted |
| they | will have difficulted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | difficult |
| you | difficult |
| he;she;it | difficult |
| we | difficult |
| you | difficult |
| they | difficult |
Perfect
| I | have difficulted |
| you | have difficulted |
| he;she;it | have difficulted |
| we | have difficulted |
| you | have difficulted |
| they | have difficulted |
Imperfect
| I | difficulted |
| you | difficulted |
| he;she;it | difficulted |
| we | difficulted |
| you | difficulted |
| they | difficulted |
Pluperfect
| I | had difficulted |
| you | had difficulted |
| he;she;it | had difficulted |
| we | had difficulted |
| you | had difficulted |
| they | had difficulted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would difficult |
| you | would difficult |
| he;she;it | would difficult |
| we | would difficult |
| you | would difficult |
| they | would difficult |
Perfect
| I | would have difficulted |
| you | would have difficulted |
| he;she;it | would have difficulted |
| we | would have difficulted |
| you | would have difficulted |
| they | would have difficulted |
Imperative
| you | difficult |
| we | Let's difficult |
| you | difficult |
Verbs conjugated like 'difficult'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'difficult'
difficultate,
default,
diffide,
diffind,
diffine,
diffract,
diffuse,
disfigure,
dissimule,
offcut,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To make difficult
- hinder
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English difficult (ca. 1400), a back-formation from difficulte (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”).
2. The verb is from the adjective, partly after Middle French difficulter and its etymon Latin difficultō. Compare difficilitate, difficultate, and Italian difficoltare. See: Latin '
difficultō', Italian '
difficoltare'.
Sample Sentences
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August 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson
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their Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions , which had difficulted the peace