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Difficult vs Dangerous - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between difficult and dangerous

is that difficult is hard, not easy, requiring much effort while dangerous is full of danger.

As a verb difficult

is to make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

difficult

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
  • * (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
  • There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone.
  • * 2008 , Daniel Goleman, Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (ISBN 0307483762), page 199:
  • In adults, the same kind of anger has been studied in people trying to solve a very difficult math problem. Though the tough math problem is very frustrating, there is an active attempt to solve the problem and meet the goal.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
  • Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
  • 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: Other 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

    Derived terms

    * difficultly

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
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    dangerous

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Full of danger.
  • :
  • *
  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods
  • In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
  • Forby. Bartlett.
  • (lb) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
  • *(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
  • *:My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; / My lord to me is hard and dangerous .
  • (lb) Reserved; not affable.
  • *(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
  • *:Of his speech dangerous
  • Synonyms

    (full of danger) * hazardous * perilous * risky * unsafe * See also

    Antonyms

    * (full of danger) safe