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Tightening.

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-<gloss>difficult to discern</gloss>
-<gloss>hard to tell</gloss>
+<gloss>difficult to grasp</gloss>

https://context.reverso.net/translation/japanese-english/分かりづらい

Two hard-to-tell examples
https://context.reverso.net/translation/japanese-english/分かりづらい#hard+to+tell

https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=分かりづらい
分かりづらい専門用語
confusing terminology（使い方などが）

https://ameblo.jp/tricolorlanguage/entry-12496937944.html

「分かりづらい」＝“confusing”（カﾝフューズィﾝｸﾞ）
例：
“His explanation was so confusing.”
「彼の説明はとても分かりづらかった。」

分かる has a lot of subtle meanings, not all of which fall under "understand", including the context I just encountered.

(pointing towards well-dressed men)人の偉いさは分かりづらい、だからああやって見た目で分かるようにするんだ。
trans: It's hard to tell which humans are important. So they dress themselves up to make it obvious.

My own intuition is to adds something like "difficult to discern/recognize" but I haven't found particular support for that.  "hard to tell" strikes me as the right sense, but doesn't quite map directly from :
nounは分かりづらい.  You can't say "importance is hard to tell" or "hard-to-tell importance".  You have to transform it into "it's hard to tell how important"....

eijiro has "confusing" in one context.  There's one reverso example of "puzzling".  I like both, but neither of these works for my specific example though, and it doesn't seem like an unusual use-case to me.

Hmm, google translates in isolation as "Confusing"

You might have some better ideas.

@@ -15,0 +16,4 @@
+<gloss>difficult to discern</gloss>
+<gloss>hard to tell</gloss>
+<gloss>confusing</gloss>
+<gloss>puzzling</gloss>

Goog
分かり辛い	36884
分かりづらい	253177
わかりづらい	294735
KM
分かり辛い	939
分かりづらい	6998
わかりづらい	9103

@@ -5 +5 @@
-<keb>分かり辛い</keb>
+<keb>分かりづらい</keb>
@@ -8 +8 @@
-<keb>分かりづらい</keb>
+<keb>分かり辛い</keb>

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