NOUN | act | difficulty, trouble | an effort that is inconvenient |
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cognition | difficulty | a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | |
state | difficulty | a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome | |
attribute | difficulty, difficultness | the quality of being difficult |
Sounds | dih'fahkahltiy; dih'fihkah.ltiy | |
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Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... |
Meaning | An effort that is inconvenient. | |
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Examples |
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Synonym | trouble | |
Narrower | the devil | Something difficult or awkward to do or deal with |
tsuris | (Yiddish) aggravating trouble | |
Broader | effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat | Use of physical or mental energy |
Spanish | dificultad, problema | |
Catalan | dificultat |
Meaning | A factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result. | |
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Narrower | facer | (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced |
hindrance, hinderance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check, handicap | Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | |
killer | A difficulty that is hard to deal with | |
kink | A difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation | |
pisser | A very disagreeable difficulty | |
pitfall, booby trap | An unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty | |
snorter | Something outstandingly difficult | |
trouble, problem | A source of difficulty | |
wrinkle | A minor difficulty | |
Broader | cognitive factor | Something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result |
Spanish | complicación, dificultad, impedimento, obstáculo, pega, problema | |
Catalan | complicació, dificultat, impediment, obstacle, problema |
Meaning | The quality of being difficult. | |
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Example | "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" | |
Synonym | difficultness | |
Attributes | difficult, hard | not easy |
Narrower | asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness | Something hard to endure |
burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness | unwelcome burdensome difficulty | |
effortfulness | The quality of requiring deliberate effort | |
formidability, toughness | impressive difficulty | |
hardness, ruggedness | The quality of being difficult to do | |
subtlety, niceness | The quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | |
troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment | A difficulty that causes anxiety | |
Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
Opposite | ease, easiness, simplicity, simpleness | freedom from difficulty / difficulty or hardship / hardship or effort |
Spanish | dificultad | |
Catalan | dificultat |
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