difficulty
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(noun) the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" |
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Synonyms: difficultness |
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Related Words: asperity, burdensomeness, effortfulness, formidability, grimness, hardness, hardship, inconvenience, niceness, onerousness, oppressiveness, quality, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severity, subtlety, toughness, troublesomeness, worriment |
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Antonyms: ease |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: cognitive factor, deterrent, facer, handicap, hindrance, impediment, pitfall, problem, snorter, trouble |
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(noun) a situation or condition almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome: "grappling with financial difficulties" |
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Related Words: bitch, condition, fix, hard time, hole, jam, job, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, problem, quandary, rattrap, status, strain, stress, urinary hesitancy, wall |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: trouble |
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Related Words: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail |
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