Difficult
Difficult adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Quirky and difficult are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Quirky" instead an adjective "Difficult".
Nearby Word: difficulty
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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There are three rounds of fast paced cooking with a basket of secret ingredients (at least one ingredient in each basket should be quirky, obscure, or difficult to work with).
Source: Series / Chopped - Now, if the names get too in-jokey, quirky or obscure they can have an adverse effect in being difficult to correlate the plot of the episode when its name means absolutely nothing.
Source: Idiosyncratic Episode Naming -
The puzzles here are more quirky (and difficult) than the rest of the game.
Source: Amazing Technicolor Battlefield
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Quirky and Difficult. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/quirky
Difficult & Quirky. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/quirky>.
Quirky or Difficult. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/quirky.
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