sukarBahasa Indonesia

elusive, hard, arduous, difficult, awkward

Common #4,130 of the corpus · 23.7 per million words · 101,067 occurrences

Adjective

Hard to deal with, especially causing pain or embarrassment

English: awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable

Bahasa: susah, cerewet

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Making great mental demands, hard to comprehend or solve or believe

English: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough

Bahasa: sulit, rumit, susah, payah

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8 more adjective senses

Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion, especially physical effort

English: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome

Bahasa: kuat, susah, payah, jerih, perih, berjerih, memerihkan, menjerihkan

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Difficult to describe

English: elusive

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Difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

English: elusive, subtle

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Ostentatiously lofty in style

English: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid

Bahasa: membosankan, muluk

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Difficult to accomplish, demanding considerable mental effort and skill

English: arduous

Bahasa: sulit, susah, payah

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