Related Words:
- refractory
collapse - temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli; "the refractory period of a muscle fiber"
- not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains" related words >
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- alien,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- at odds,
- averse,
- beyond control,
- breachy,
- bullheaded,
- china,
- clashing,
- clay,
- competitive,
- complaining,
- con,
- conflicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- contumacious,
- counter,
- cross,
- cursory,
- defiant,
- deviant,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- dissident,
- enamel,
- enemy,
- forced,
- fractious,
- headstrong,
- hostile,
- impatient of control,
- incorrigible,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- indomitable,
- inimical,
- insuppressible,
- intractable,
- involuntary,
- irrepressible,
- mulish,
- mutinous,
- negative,
- nonconformable,
- nonconforming,
- noncooperative,
- nonobservant,
- objecting,
- obstinate,
- obstreperous,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opponent,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- ornery,
- out of hand,
- overthwart,
- perfunctory,
- perverse,
- porcelain,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- recusant,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- rival,
- self-willed,
- shrewish,
- stiff-necked,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- unadaptable,
- unadjustable,
- unbiddable,
- uncompliant,
- unconforming,
- unconsenting,
- uncontrollable,
- uncooperative,
- unfavorable,
- unfriendly,
- ungovernable,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmoldable,
- unpropitious,
- unruly,
- unsubmissive,
- unwilling,
- unyielding,
- up in arms,
- wild,
- withstanding
- orthodox
collapse
- adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world"
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism; "Orthodox Judaism"
- of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church related words >
- Christian,
- Orthodox Jew,
- Sunni Muslim,
- accepted,
- accordant,
- accustomed,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- anal,
- approved,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- authorized,
- being done,
- bourgeois,
- button-down,
- canonical,
- canonist,
- comme il faut,
- common,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformable,
- conformist,
- conservative,
- conventional,
- correct,
- corresponding,
- customary,
- de rigueur,
- decent,
- decorous,
- die-hard,
- doctrinal,
- dour,
- established,
- evangelical,
- faithful,
- firm,
- fogyish,
- formal,
- formalistic,
- fundamentalist,
- hard,
- harmonious,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- kosher,
- literal,
- meet,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- of the faith,
- official,
- old-line,
- ordinary,
- orthodox Christian,
- orthodoxical,
- orthodoxist,
- pedantic,
- plastic,
- popular,
- precisianistic,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- procrustean,
- proper,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- reactionary,
- received,
- recognized,
- regular,
- relentless,
- right,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- sanctioned,
- scriptural,
- seemly,
- sound,
- square,
- standard,
- stiff,
- straight,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- textual,
- textualist,
- textuary,
- the orthodox,
- tory,
- traditional,
- traditionalist,
- traditionalistic,
- true,
- true believer,
- true-blue,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- uptight
- abiding,
- arrogant,
- assiduous,
- assured,
- calm,
- cocksure,
- confident,
- constant,
- continuing,
- convinced,
- coolheaded,
- decided,
- determined,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- firm,
- hubristic,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inexcitable,
- insistent,
- invincible,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- nerveless,
- never-failing,
- never-tiring,
- obstinate,
- overconfident,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- persuaded,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- poised,
- pompous,
- positive,
- preoccupied,
- proud,
- rapt,
- reassured,
- relaxed,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- rock-steady,
- secure,
- sedulous,
- self-assured,
- self-confident,
- self-important,
- self-reliant,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- steady-handed,
- steady-nerved,
- steel-nerved,
- stick-at-nothing,
- strong-nerved,
- stubborn,
- sure,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- unabating,
- unafraid,
- unblenching,
- unblinking,
- unconquerable,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undoubting,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unhesitant,
- unhesitating,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnervous,
- unnodding,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unquivering,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unshaken,
- unshaky,
- unshrinking,
- unsleeping,
- unstrained,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- untremulous,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- weariless,
- wholehearted,
- without a tremor
- bigoted
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- blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others; "a bigoted person"; "an outrageously bigoted point of view" related words >
- Sabbatarian,
- authoritarian,
- balking,
- balky,
- biased,
- bigot,
- borne,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- case-hardened,
- closed,
- conceited,
- conservative,
- constricted,
- cramped,
- creedbound,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- doctrinaire,
- doctrinarian,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- dogmatizing,
- evangelical,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- extremist,
- fanatic,
- fanatical,
- fundamentalist,
- haggard,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- illiberal,
- inordinate,
- insular,
- intolerant,
- irrational,
- jaundiced,
- lily-white,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- little,
- little-minded,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- mulish,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- nearsighted,
- obstinate,
- one-sided,
- opinionated,
- opinionative,
- opinioned,
- oracular,
- overenthusiastic,
- overreligious,
- overzealous,
- parochial,
- partial,
- peremptory,
- perfervid,
- persevering,
- pertinacious,
- petty,
- pigheaded,
- pontifical,
- positive,
- positivistic,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- prejudiced,
- pronunciative,
- provincial,
- purblind,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanical,
- rabid,
- restive,
- self-opinionated,
- self-opinioned,
- self-willed,
- set,
- shortsighted,
- small,
- small-minded,
- staunch,
- stiff-necked,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tenacious,
- ultrazealous,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- uncooperative,
- ungenerous,
- unliberal,
- unreasonable,
- unregenerate,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- willful,
- zealotic
- indomitable
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- impossible to subdue related words >
- assiduous,
- beyond control,
- brave,
- breachy,
- constant,
- continuing,
- contumacious,
- courageous,
- dauntless,
- defiant,
- determined,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fearless,
- fractious,
- immutable,
- impassable,
- impenetrable,
- impregnable,
- inalterable,
- incontestable,
- incorrigible,
- indefatigable,
- indocile,
- industrious,
- inexpugnable,
- insistent,
- insuperable,
- insuppressible,
- insurmountable,
- intractable,
- intrepid,
- invincible,
- inviolable,
- invulnerable,
- irrepressible,
- irresistible,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- mettlesome,
- never-tiring,
- obstinate,
- obstreperous,
- out of hand,
- overpowering,
- overwhelming,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plucky,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- relentless,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistless,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- restive,
- sedulous,
- shrewish,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stubborn,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- unabating,
- unafraid,
- unassailable,
- unbeatable,
- unbiddable,
- unconquerable,
- uncontrollable,
- undaunted,
- undefeatable,
- undisciplined,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- ungovernable,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmoldable,
- unnodding,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unruly,
- unsleeping,
- unstoppable,
- unsubduable,
- unsubmissive,
- unsurmountable,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- unyielding,
- utterly attentive,
- weariless,
- wild
- assiduous,
- balanced,
- calm,
- constant,
- continuing,
- cool,
- coolheaded,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fast,
- fiducial,
- firm,
- firm as Gibraltar,
- immutable,
- imperturbable,
- implacable,
- in equilibrium,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inexcitable,
- insistent,
- invincible,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- merciless,
- mortal,
- nerveless,
- never-tiring,
- obstinate,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- predictable,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- relaxed,
- relentless,
- reliable,
- resolute,
- rock-steady,
- ruthless,
- secure,
- sedulous,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- solid,
- sound,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- steady-handed,
- steady-nerved,
- steel-nerved,
- stick-at-nothing,
- strong-nerved,
- stubborn,
- substantial,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- unabashed,
- unabating,
- unappalled,
- unappeasable,
- unawed,
- unblenching,
- unblinking,
- unconquerable,
- uncowed,
- uncringing,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undismayed,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflappable,
- unhesitant,
- unhesitating,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unintimidated,
- unnervous,
- unnodding,
- unquivering,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unshakable,
- unshaken,
- unshaky,
- unshrinking,
- unsleeping,
- unstrained,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- untremulous,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- unyielding,
- utterly attentive,
- weariless,
- well-balanced,
- without a tremor,
- without nerves
- Spartan,
- accepting,
- armed with patience,
- assiduous,
- balking,
- balky,
- bigoted,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- case-hardened,
- committed,
- constant,
- continuing,
- decided,
- decisive,
- dedicated,
- definite,
- determined,
- devoted,
- diligent,
- disciplined,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- earnest,
- endurant,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- forbearing,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- indulgent,
- industrious,
- insistent,
- intolerant,
- invincible,
- lasting,
- lenient,
- long-suffering,
- longanimous,
- loyal,
- mulish,
- never-tiring,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- overzealous,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- philosophical,
- pigheaded,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- purposeful,
- rapt,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- restive,
- sedulous,
- self-controlled,
- self-willed,
- serious,
- set,
- sincere,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stiff-necked,
- stoic,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- tolerant,
- tolerating,
- tolerative,
- unabating,
- unconquerable,
- uncooperative,
- undaunted,
- understanding,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unregenerate,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- weariless,
- wholehearted,
- willful
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- aloof,
- arrowlike,
- cast-iron,
- constant,
- dead straight,
- direct,
- distant,
- dour,
- even,
- firm,
- fixed,
- flat,
- flinty,
- fundamentalist,
- grim,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- hidebound,
- horizontal,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- in a line,
- inductile,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inextensible,
- inextensile,
- inextensional,
- inflexible,
- insociable,
- intractable,
- intractile,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- irreconcilable,
- irresilient,
- level,
- lineal,
- linear,
- loyal,
- muscle-bound,
- nonelastic,
- nonstretchable,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- offish,
- orthodox,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- rectilineal,
- rectilinear,
- relentless,
- reserved,
- right,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- ruler-straight,
- set,
- settled,
- single-minded,
- smooth,
- sot,
- standoffish,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- straight,
- straight-cut,
- straight-front,
- straight-side,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- streamlined,
- stubborn,
- true,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unapproachable,
- unbent,
- unbowed,
- unbroken,
- unchangeable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompromising,
- uncurved,
- undeflectable,
- undeflected,
- undeviating,
- undistorted,
- unextendible,
- unextensible,
- unflappable,
- unflexible,
- ungiving,
- uninterrupted,
- unlimber,
- unmalleable,
- unmoved,
- unpliable,
- unpliant,
- unrelenting,
- unshaken,
- unswayable,
- unswerving,
- untractable,
- unturned,
- unyielding,
- upright,
- vertical,
- withdrawn
- dogged
collapse
- stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" related words >
- adamant,
- assiduous,
- badgered,
- baited,
- balking,
- balky,
- bedeviled,
- beset,
- bigoted,
- bugged,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- bullyragged,
- case-hardened,
- chivied,
- constant,
- continuing,
- deviled,
- diligent,
- dogmatic,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- fretted,
- harassed,
- hardheaded,
- harried,
- haunted,
- headstrong,
- heckled,
- hectored,
- hounded,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inexorable,
- insistent,
- intolerant,
- invincible,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- mulish,
- needled,
- never-tiring,
- nipped at,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- overzealous,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- persecuted,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- pestered,
- picked on,
- pigheaded,
- plagued,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- ragged,
- rapt,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- restive,
- rigid,
- sedulous,
- self-willed,
- set,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stiff-necked,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- teased,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- tormented,
- unabating,
- unbending,
- unconquerable,
- uncooperative,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unregenerate,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- vexed,
- weariless,
- willful,
- worried,
- worried sick,
- worried stiff
- dogmatic
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- characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
- relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings"
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative related words >
- Sabbatarian,
- a priori,
- antiblack,
- arbitrary,
- arrogant,
- assertive,
- assured,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- balking,
- balky,
- believing,
- biased,
- bigoted,
- blind,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- canonical,
- case-hardened,
- categorical,
- certain,
- chauvinistic,
- colored,
- conceited,
- confessional,
- confident,
- convinced,
- creedal,
- creedbound,
- deaf,
- deducible,
- derivable,
- devout,
- dictatorial,
- doctrinaire,
- doctrinal,
- doctrinarian,
- dogged,
- dogmatizing,
- domineering,
- doubtless,
- emphatic,
- evangelical,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- fideistic,
- fundamentalist,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- imperious,
- impressed with,
- influenced,
- insistent,
- interested,
- intolerant,
- jaundiced,
- know-nothing,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- magisterial,
- mulish,
- nonobjective,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- one-sided,
- opinionated,
- opinionative,
- opinioned,
- oracular,
- overbearing,
- overzealous,
- partial,
- partisan,
- peremptory,
- persevering,
- persuaded,
- pertinacious,
- pietistic,
- pigheaded,
- pious,
- pistic,
- pontifical,
- positive,
- positivistic,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- prejudiced,
- prepossessed,
- pronunciative,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanical,
- pushy,
- racist,
- reasoned,
- restive,
- satisfied,
- secure,
- self-opinionated,
- self-opinioned,
- self-willed,
- set,
- sexist,
- sold on,
- staunch,
- stiff-necked,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- superpatriotic,
- sure,
- swayed,
- tenacious,
- twisted,
- ultranationalist,
- uncooperative,
- under the impression,
- undetached,
- undispassionate,
- undoubtful,
- undoubting,
- unpersuadable,
- unregenerate,
- warped,
- willful,
- xenophobic
- assiduous,
- balking,
- balky,
- bigoted,
- bulldogged,
- bulldoggish,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- case-hardened,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- constant,
- continuing,
- crying,
- demanding,
- diligent,
- dogged,
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- diligent
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- characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks; "a diligent detective investigates all clues"; "a diligent search of the files"
- quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business" related words >
- academic,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- ardent,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- bookish,
- careful,
- concentrated,
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- dogged,
- donnish,
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- faithful,
- fervent,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- hard,
- hard-working,
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- heedful,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
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- intense,
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- intentive,
- invincible,
- laborious,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- mandarin,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- never idle,
- never-tiring,
- nice,
- niggling,
- observant,
- observing,
- obstinate,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- operose,
- owlish,
- painstaking,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- pedantic,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plugging,
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- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
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- steady,
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- stubborn,
- studious,
- tenacious,
- thorough,
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- tireless,
- unabating,
- unconquerable,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
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- unflagging,
- unflinching,
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- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- vehement,
- watchful,
- weariless,
- zealous
- difficult
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- not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
- requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was long, steep, and difficult" related words >
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
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- awkward,
- baffling,
- beyond one,
- bloody-minded,
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- unshakable,
- unshaken,
- unshaky,
- unshrinking,
- unsleeping,
- unstrained,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- untremulous,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- weariless,
- well-balanced,
- without a tremor,
- without nerves
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