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though | difficult |

As an adverb though

is (lb) despite that; however.

As a conjunction though

is despite the fact that; although.

As an adjective difficult is

hard, not easy, requiring much effort.

As a verb difficult is

(obsolete|transitive) to make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

though

English

Alternative forms

* tho *

Adverb

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  • (lb) Despite that; however.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
  • (lb) Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed.
  • :
  • Synonyms

    * (despite that) all the same, anyhow, anyway, even so, in any case, nevertheless, nonetheless, still, yet

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • Despite the fact that; although.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
  • (lb) If, that, even if.
  • :
  • * 1945 , (Oscar Hammerstein II), “ (musical)
  • *:Walk on through the wind, / Walk on through the rain, / Though your dreams be tossed and blown.
  • Usage notes

    * (if) This sense is now archaic, except in the fixed expression (as though).

    Synonyms

    * (although) although, even though

    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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