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Misty vs Difficult - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between misty and difficult

is that misty is with mist; foggy while difficult is hard, not easy, requiring much effort.

As a proper noun Misty

is {{given name|female|from=English}} from the adjective "misty", reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.

As a verb difficult is

to make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

misty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • With mist; foggy.
  • It’s a very misty morning this morning - I can’t see a thing!
  • (figuratively) With tears in the eyes.
  • ''Her eyes grew misty the night her long-time friend passed away.

    Derived terms

    * misty-eyed

    Anagrams

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    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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