Difficulty

['dɪfɪk(ə)ltɪ] or ['dɪfɪkəlti]

Definition

(noun.) the quality of being difficult; 'they agreed about the difficulty of the climb'.

(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'.

(noun.) 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'.

Typist: Nelly--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.

(n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.

(n.) A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.

(n.) Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.

Editor: Mamie

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Arduousness.[2]. Obstacle, impediment, bar, obstruction, barrier, hinderance, trouble, perplexity, exigency, trial, dilemma, embarrassment, emergency, pinch, pickle, stand, dead-set, set fast, dead-lock, dead-stand, stand-still, horns of a dilemma, up-hill work, sea of troubles, peck of troubles, hard row to hoe, hard nut to crack.

Checker: Wilbur

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See DIFFICULT]

Checker: Mitchell

Unserious Contents or Definition

This dream signifies temporary embarrassment for business men of all classes, including soldiers and writers. But to extricate yourself from difficulties, foretells your prosperity. For a woman to dream of being in difficulties, denotes that she is threatened with ill health or enemies. For lovers, this is a dream of contrariety, denoting pleasant courtship.

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Examples

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