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Difficult vs Simples - What's the difference?

difficult | simples |

As verbs the difference between difficult and simples

is that difficult is (obsolete|transitive) to make difficult; to impede; to perplex while simples is (simple).

As an adjective difficult

is hard, not easy, requiring much effort.

As a noun simples is

.

As an interjection simples is

(uk|slang) that is easy to understand.

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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    simples

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (simple)

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (UK, slang) That is easy to understand.
  • * 2009 April 14, "jamie powell" (username), " Re: Satellite dish acquires wrong 'bird'", in uk.tech.digital-tv, Usenet :
    • There is no potential for takeover of the state of Pakistan by a rag-tag bunch of trumped-up nobodies with battered guns, and therefore no threat to the west. simples !
  • * 2010 March 25, Mike Jones, " Re: And Jeremiah The Prophet Said:", in alt.talk.creationism and other newsgroups, Usenet :
    • So you claim. So, put whatcha got on the table, or STFU. ¶ Simples.
  • * 2010 August 10, "AC" (username), " Re: HD coverage of the Nascar Race and Indy car races makes the F1 coverage look like Crap", in rec.autos.sport.f1, Usenet :
    • Look, the vast majority of F1 viewers don't have HD TV. There for the numbers don't add up. When they do, you will have your HD TV. Simples .
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