Dictionary Definition
difficulty
Noun
1 an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a
lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty
walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty" [syn:
trouble]
2 a factor causing trouble in achieving a
positive result or tending to produce a negative result; "serious
difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent"
3 a condition or state of affairs almost beyond
one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or
overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"
4 the quality of being difficult; "they agreed
about the difficulty of the climb" [syn: difficultness] [ant:
ease]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /difikəl̩tiː/
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
state of being difficult
- Czech: obtížnost
- Finnish: vaikeus, hankaluus
- French: difficulté
- German: Schwierigkeit (de)
- Hebrew: קושי (qoshi)
- Italian: difficoltà (it)
- Portuguese: dificuldade .
- Scottish Gaelic: duilgheadas , cruas , cruadal , spàirn , docaireachd , èiginn , teanntachd
- Spanish: dificultad
- Swedish: svårighet , besvär
obstacle
Extensive Definition
Difficulty may refer to:
- a problem
- the difficulty level in a video game
- Countermajoritarian difficulty
- Facility, Easy
difficulty in French: Difficulté
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Gordian knot, abstruseness, adverse
circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, agreement to
disagree, altercation, annoyance, arduousness, asperity, bad news, bedevilment, beef, bickering, blight, block, blockade, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, bottleneck, bummer, burden, burthen, care, cargo, catch, challenge, charge, complexity, complication, controversy, cordon, crabbedness, crampedness, crashing bore,
cross, cross-purposes,
cumbrance, curse, curtain, deadweight, deepness, demurral, demurrer, determent, deterrent, devilment, difference, difference of
opinion, difficulties, dilemma, disadvantage, disagreement, disparity, dispute, distress, dividedness, division, dogging, downer, drag, drawback, embarrassment, emergency, encumbrance, esoterica, exasperation, exigency, falling-out, fight, fix, formidableness, freight, hamper, handicap, hang-up, harassment, hard knocks, hard
life, hard lot, hardcase, hardness, hardship, harrying, hassle, hazard, headache, heavy sledding,
hindrance, hitch, hot water, hounding, hurdle, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, intricacy, irritation, jam, joker, knottiness, laboriousness, load, lumber, mess, misunderstanding,
molestation,
nuisance, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, odds, one small difficulty,
onus, pack, painfulness, pass, penalty, persecution, pest, pickle, pinch, pitfall, plight, polarization, predicament, pressure, problem, profoundness, profundity, protest, quandary, question, reconditeness, remonstrance, remonstration, rigor, rub, scrape, sea of troubles, snag, squabble, strain, strait, straits, stress, stress of life, stumbling
block, stumbling stone, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, vale of tears,
variance, vexation, vexatiousness, vicissitude, vigor, weight, white elephant, worriment, worry