Difficult
Difficult adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Up and down is an antonym for difficult.
Nearby Word: difficulty
Up and down
Up and down adverb - Moving backward and forward along a given course.
Both terms in one sentence
- Awesome, but Impractical, as it's difficult to shoot someone when you're jumping up and down like a demented kangaroo.
Source: Web Video / Star Wars Downunder -
The large flies will speed up as soon as they see you, and when chasing you, they'll follow the shortest possible distance while also bobbing up and down, to make targeting difficult.
Source: Video Game / hets - For instance, it was (in some European circles) thought that the best way to assist a difficult birth was to get some people to hold the mother's torso upright and then shake her up and down to help the baby "fall out".
Source: Death by Childbirth
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Up and down and Difficult. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/up_and_down
Difficult & Up and down. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/up_and_down>.
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