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English noun: difficulty | |||
| 1. | difficulty (act) an effort that is inconvenient | ||
| Samples | I went to a lot of trouble. He won without any trouble. Had difficulty walking. Finished the test only with great difficulty. | ||
| Synonyms | trouble | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | the devil, tsuris | ||
| 2. | difficulty (cognition) a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | ||
| Samples | Serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cognitive factor | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | balk, baulk, booby trap, check, deterrent, facer, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment, killer, kink, pisser, pitfall, problem, snorter, trouble, wrinkle | ||
| 3. | difficulty (state) a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome | ||
| Samples | Grappling with financial difficulties. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | condition, status | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bitch, fix, hard time, hole, jam, job, kettle of fish, mess, mire, muddle, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, problem, quandary, rattrap, rough sledding, situation, strain, stress, urinary hesitancy, wall | ||
| 4. | difficulty (attribute) the quality of being difficult | ||
| Samples | They agreed about the difficulty of the climb. | ||
| Synonyms | difficultness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | quality | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | asperity, burdensomeness, effortfulness, formidability, grimness, hardness, hardship, heaviness, inconvenience, niceness, onerousness, oppressiveness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, ruggedness, severeness, severity, subtlety, toughness, troublesomeness, worriment | ||
| Attribute | difficult, hard | ||
| Antonyms | ease, easiness, simpleness, simplicity | ||
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