What is another word for a difficult project?

crisis. noun. an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation.

1 arduous, burdensome, demanding, formidable, hard, laborious, like getting blood out of a stone, no picnic (informal) onerous, painful, strenuous, toilsome, uphill, wearisome.

Hard, not easy, requiring much effort. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.

harsh (extremely difficult); hard (difficult to accomplish or complete); tricky (unclear, difficult to understand);

If you want alternatives to tough as an attributive adjective, you can take your pick from hard, difficult, irksome, challenging, strenuous, laborious, uphill. All can be used predicatively as well, except the last. Arduous is the first word that comes to mind for me.

hard, difficult, arduous mean demanding great exertion or effort. hard implies the opposite of all that is easy. farming is hard work difficult implies the presence of obstacles to be surmounted or puzzles to be resolved and suggests the need of skill or courage.

Verb. difficult (third-person singular simple present difficults, present participle difficulting, simple past and past participle difficulted)

If you want an adverb, you can use laboriously, which means with great difficulty.

1. calamity.
2. catastrophe.
3. crunch.
4. difficulty.
5. disaster.
6. hardship.
7. misery.
8. misfortune.

Noun form of difficult is difficulty.

As detailed above, ‘difficult’ is an adjective.

• slack.
• soft.
• weak.
• delicate.
• fragile.
• unstable.
• vulnerable.
• wobbly.

The past tense of difficult is difficulted. The third-person singular simple present indicative form of difficult is difficults. The present participle of difficult is difficulting. The past participle of difficult is difficulted.

We use “more” and “the most” when the adjective has many syllables, e.g. more difficult than (comparative), the most difficult (superlative).

AdjectiveComparativeSuperlativedifficultmore difficultthe most difficult

and hard row to hoe a difficult task to carry out; a heavy set of burdens. It’s a tough row to hoe, but hoe it you will. This is not an easy task. This is a hard row to hoe.

adjective [ADJECTIVE to-infinitive] If a job or action is easy, you can do it without difficulty or effort, because it is not complicated and causes no problems.

Definition of ponderous 1 : of very great weight. 2 : unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size. 3 : oppressively or unpleasantly dull : lifeless ponderous prose.