📒 difficult to do, understand or answer
📒 full of difficulty and problems, especially because of a lack of money
📒 needing or using a lot of physical strength or mental effort
📒 putting a lot of effort or energy into an activity
📒 done with a lot of strength or force
📒 solid or stiff and difficult to bend or break
📒 showing no kind feelings or sympathy
📒 showing no signs of fear or weakness; ready to fight or compete
📒 definitely true and based on information that can be proved
📒 very cold and severe
📒 strongly alcoholic
📒 containing calcium and other mineral salts that make mixing with soap difficult
📒 used to describe a letter c or g when pronounced as in ‘cat’ or ‘go’, rather than as in ‘city’ or ‘giant’
📒 to treat or criticize somebody in a very severe or strict way
📒 to be difficult for or unfair to somebody/something
📒 to be likely to hurt or damage something
📒 in a situation where you have to choose between two things, both of which are unpleasant
📒 to argue in an aggressive way and force somebody to agree on the best possible price or arrangement
📒 to deliberately make a situation difficult and unpleasant for somebody
📒 that cannot be changed in any circumstances
📒 showing no fear, sympathy or kind behaviour
📒 used as a way of saying that you are sorry about something, usually ironically (= you really mean the opposite)
📒 difficult to understand or needing a lot of effort
📒 used to tell somebody that you feel sorry for them
📒 a difficult problem or situation to deal with
📒 a person or event that is so good or successful at something that it will be difficult for anyone/anything else coming after them to be as good or successful
📒 by having an unpleasant experience or by making mistakes
📒 to have difficulty doing something
📒 to use more time or energy on a task than is necessary
📒 used after you have been arguing with somebody or have beaten them in a contest but you would still like to be friendly with them
📒 to make yourself seem more attractive or interesting by not immediately accepting an invitation to do something
📒 to consider a problem or possibility very carefully and without hurrying
📒 needing too much effort