Difficult
Difficult adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Jealous and difficult are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Jealous" instead an adjective "Difficult".
Nearby Word: difficulty
Both words in one sentence
- She doesn't get jealous of attention paid to others for example, although her nature makes it really difficult to upstage her.
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Fairley is interested, Daniel is jealous, and Lucy has a difficult decision to make.
Source: Film / The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Cave Story Apparently, the difficult-path ending boss used to be a real nice guy... until someone got jealous of him and decided to torture him for a while.
Source: Being Tortured Makes You Evil
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Jealous and Difficult. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/jealous
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