| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Adjective | 1. Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn.[Websters] 2. Being hard, tough, arduous, severe or stiff. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being stubborn, intractable, restive, recalcitrant or refractory. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being awkward, unwieldy, cumbersome, inconvenient or unmanageable. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being ticklish or touchy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being tricky, dodgy or knotty. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Adjective base of the adverb difficily.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (difficily) |
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective difficile.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. |
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"Difficile" is a common misspelling or typo for: difficult, difficiles, edificial. |
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Date "Difficile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
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Etymology:Difficile \Dif"fi*cile\, adjective. [Latin expression difficilis: compare to the French expression difficile. See Difficult.]. (references) |
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| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Difficult; hard; scrupulous. [Not used.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] (obsolete) Difficult. 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 185: [...] forasmuch as he was to judge of an internall beauty, of a difficile knowledge, and abstruse discovery. (references) | ||
| 2: [Adjective] (obsolete) Hard to work with; stubborn. (references) | |||
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| Clostridium difficile | Clostridium difficile is a species of bacteria of the genus Clostridium which are gram-positive, anaerobic spore-forming rods. They cause pseudomembranous colitis, a severe infection of the colon, often after normal gut flora is eradicated by the use of antibiotics. Treatment is by stopping putative antibiotics and commencing specific anticlostridial antibiotics, e.g. metronidazole. (references) | ||
| Peu difficile | Peu difficile (of small difficulty; moderately difficult) is a French grade for climbing routes. It may be qualified, as PD- or PD+, for slightly easier or harder routes. (references) | ||
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| Clostridium difficile | Health | A common inhabitant of the colon flora in human infants and sometimes in adults. It produces a toxin that causes pseudomembranous enterocolitis in patients receiving antibiotic therapy. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: DIFFICILE | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Clostridium difficile | 66 | Clostridium difficile | 66 | |
| Peu difficile | 3 | Peu difficile | 3 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Albanian | i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky). Additional references: Albanian, Turkey (Europe), difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Arnaut | i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky). Additional references: Arnaut, Turkey (Europe), difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Balgarski | труден (arduous, awkward, complex, difficult, dodgy). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Balgarski (transliteration) | truden (arduous, awkward, complex, difficult, dodgy). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bohemian | nesnášenlivý (intolerant, difficile, impatient, insular, difficult), neukázněný (undisciplined, disorderly, insubordinate, difficile, on the loose), tvrdohlavý (stubborn, obstinate, wilful, bullheaded, dour), nesnadno ovladatelný (difficile, difficult), těžko zvládnutelný (difficile, difficult). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bulgarian | труден (arduous, awkward, complex, difficult, dodgy). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bulgarian (transliteration) | truden (arduous, awkward, complex, difficult, dodgy). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Cestina | nesnášenlivý (intolerant, difficile, impatient, insular, difficult), neukázněný (undisciplined, disorderly, insubordinate, difficile, on the loose), tvrdohlavý (stubborn, obstinate, wilful, bullheaded, dour), nesnadno ovladatelný (difficile, difficult), těžko zvládnutelný (difficile, difficult). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Czech | nesnášenlivý (intolerant, difficile, impatient, insular, difficult), neukázněný (undisciplined, disorderly, insubordinate, difficile, on the loose), tvrdohlavý (stubborn, obstinate, wilful, bullheaded, dour), nesnadno ovladatelný (difficile, difficult), těžko zvládnutelný (difficile, difficult). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hanguk Mal | 남과 어울리지 않는 (difficile), 성미가 까다로운 (dainty, liverish, ill-tempered, queasy, acidulated), 다루기 힘든 (unwieldy, unmanageable, difficult, pernickety, ponderous), 까다로운 (difficult, fussy, pernickety, cranky, splenetic), 곤란한 (briery, tough, involved, stiff, uptight). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hanguohua | 남과 어울리지 않는 (difficile), 성미가 까다로운 (dainty, liverish, ill-tempered, queasy, acidulated), 다루기 힘든 (unwieldy, unmanageable, difficult, pernickety, ponderous), 까다로운 (difficult, fussy, pernickety, cranky, splenetic), 곤란한 (briery, tough, involved, stiff, uptight). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Italian | difficile (difficult, hard, arduous, fastidious, inconvenient). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Japanese | 扱いにくい (awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, difficult, stubborn), 手に負えない (unruly, restive, obstreperous, uncontrollable, bolshy), 困難な (arduous, difficult, labored, thorny, tough), 厄介な (troublesome, awkward, bothersome, burdensome, prickly), 難しい (difficult, hard, abstruse, challenging, delicate), 気難しい (crusty, fastidious, hard to please, moody, morose). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Korean | 남과 어울리지 않는 (difficile), 성미가 까다로운 (dainty, liverish, ill-tempered, queasy, acidulated), 다루기 힘든 (unwieldy, unmanageable, difficult, pernickety, ponderous), 까다로운 (difficult, fussy, pernickety, cranky, splenetic), 곤란한 (briery, tough, involved, stiff, uptight). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russian | несговорчивый (difficile, gnarled, gnarly, intractable, stroppy), тяжелый (heavy, grinding, lumping, sopor, stodgy), капризный (flighty, fractious, freakish, prankish, wayward). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russian (transliteration) | nesgovorchivyy (difficile, gnarled, gnarly, intractable, stroppy), tyazhelyy (heavy, grinding, lumping, sopor, stodgy), kapriznyy (flighty, fractious, freakish, prankish, wayward). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russki | несговорчивый (difficile, gnarled, gnarly, intractable, stroppy), тяжелый (heavy, grinding, lumping, sopor, stodgy), капризный (flighty, fractious, freakish, prankish, wayward). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russki (transliteration) | nesgovorchivyy (difficile, gnarled, gnarly, intractable, stroppy), tyazhelyy (heavy, grinding, lumping, sopor, stodgy), kapriznyy (flighty, fractious, freakish, prankish, wayward). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Shkip | i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky). Additional references: Shkip, Turkey (Europe), difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Shqip | i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky). Additional references: Shqip, Turkey (Europe), difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Shqiperë | i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky). Additional references: Shqiperë, Turkey (Europe), difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Skchip | i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky). Additional references: Skchip, Turkey (Europe), difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Spanish | difícil (difficult, hard, inconvenient, arduous, awkward). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Tosk | i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky). Additional references: Tosk, Turkey (Europe), difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ukrainian | упертий (stubborn, contumacious, mulish, refractory, wilful), незговірливий (cross-grained, difficile, intractable, thwart). Additional references: Ukrainian, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ukrainian (transliteration) | upertiy (stubborn, contumacious, mulish, refractory, wilful), nezgovіrliviy (cross-grained, difficile, intractable, thwart). Additional references: Ukrainian, difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Zhgabe | i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky). Additional references: Zhgabe, Turkey (Europe), difficile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
| Language | Translations for “difficile” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses. | |||
| Athag | dathagiffathagicathagile (difficile). Additional references: Athag, difficile. (volunteer) | |||
| Double Dutch | dagiffagicagile (difficile). Additional references: Double Dutch, difficile. (volunteer) | |||
| Leet | [)1|=|=1(11& (difficile). Additional references: Leet, difficile. (volunteer) | |||
| Oppish | dopiffopicopile (difficile). Additional references: Oppish, difficile. (volunteer) | |||
| Pig Latin | ifficileday (difficile). Additional references: Pig Latin, difficile. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran B | difiii (difficile). Additional references: Terran B, difficile. (volunteer) | |||
| Ubbi Dubbi | dubiffubicubile (difficile). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, difficile. (volunteer) | |||
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