Difficult
Difficult adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Poor and difficult are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Poor" instead an adjective "Difficult".
Nearby Word: difficulty
Both words in one sentence
- No one making the terrible games ever usually bothered to fix any of this, so the experience was usually a miserable one when coupled with extremely difficult or poor level design.
Source: Deader Than Disco / Video Games -
Fake Difficulty: The poor controls and traction can make the platforming and driving segments of LEGOS IN SPACE TREE ridiculously difficult.
Source: Video Game / Legos In Space - Italian tanks were literally referred to by their crews as "self-propelled coffins" due to their poor armor and poor hatch placement; they were easily knocked out and difficult to bail out of.
Source: Armored Coffins
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Poor and Difficult. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/poor
Difficult & Poor. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/poor>.
Poor or Difficult. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/poor.
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