difficulty
11difficulty — n. 1) to cause, create, make, present difficulties for 2) to come across, encounter, experience, face, meet, run into difficulties 3) to clear up, overcome, resolve, surmount a difficulty 4) (a) grave, great, insurmountable, serious, severe… …
12Difficulty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Difficulty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 difficulty difficulty Sgm: N 1 hardness hardness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 impracticability impracticability &c.(impossibility) 471 Sgm: N 1 tough work tough work hard work uphil …
13difficulty — dif|fi|cul|ty W1S1 [ˈdıfıkəlti] n plural difficulties [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: difficultas, from difficilis difficult , from facilis easy ] 1.) [U] if you have difficulty doing something, it is difficult for you to do have/experience… …
14difficulty — / dIfIkFlti/ noun 1 (U) the state of being hard to do, understand or deal with: have difficulty doing sth: We have enough difficulty paying the rent as it is! | with difficulty: With difficulty, we hauled it up the stairs. | be in difficulty (=be …
15difficulty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) That which is hard to overcome Nouns 1. difficulty, hardness, impracticability, hard work, uphill work, hurdle; hard task, Herculean task, large order, hard row to hoe; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor; …
16difficulty — [[t]dɪ̱fɪkəlti[/t]] ♦♦ difficulties 1) N COUNT A difficulty is a problem. ...the difficulty of getting accurate information... The country is facing great economic difficulties. 2) N UNCOUNT If you have difficulty doing something, you are not… …
17difficulty — noun /ˈdɪfɨkʊlti,ˈdɪfɨkʌlti/ a) The state of being difficult, or hard to do. We faced a difficulty. b) An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal. <! Could be shortened to problem, just that problem is defined in terms of difficulty.… …
18Difficulty — This article is about the word. For the song by Uffie, see Difficult (song). Difficulty may refer to: a problem the difficulty level in a video game Countermajoritarian difficulty Fictional Hill Difficulty, in Pilgrim s Progress …
19difficulty*/*/*/ — [ˈdɪfɪk(ə)lti] noun 1) [C] a problem Many students have serious financial difficulties.[/ex] 2) [U] the state of not being able to do something easily Ant: ease Seb was speaking with difficulty.[/ex] She s having difficulty with her schoolwork… …
20difficulty — noun 1) the difficulty of balancing motherhood with a career Syn: strain, trouble, problems, toil, struggle, laboriousness, arduousness; informal hassle, stress Ant: ease 2) the project has met with one difficulty after another …