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Meaning of 'difficulty' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Difficulty [ 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.
- 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.
- A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
- Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.

Meaning of 'difficulty' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . difficulty [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an effort that is inconvenient
Example in sentence:
  • finished the test only with great difficulty;
  • had difficulty walking;
  • he won without any trouble;
  • I went to a lot of trouble
Meaning (2):
- a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome
Example in sentence:
  • grappling with financial difficulties
Meaning (3):
- a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result
Example in sentence:
  • serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent
Meaning (4):
- the quality of being difficult
Example in sentence:
  • they agreed about the difficulty of the climb

Nearby Words:

diffame diffarreation differ differed difference differenced differencing different differentia differentiae

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