| Concept: | Adversity. |
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unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous, unprosperous; hoodooed [U.S.]; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need., planet-struck, devoted; born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth; ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened., adverse, untoward; disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.
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| Concept: | Difficulty. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; more easily said than done., difficult to deal with, hard to deal with; ill-conditioned, crabbed; not to be handled with kid gloves, not made with rose water., awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable; intractable, stubborn (obstinate); perverse, refractory, plaguy, trying, thorny, rugged; knotted, knotty; invious; pathless, trackless; labyrinthine (convoluted); intricate, complicated (tangled); impracticable (impossible); not feasible; desperate (hopeless)., embarrassing, perplexing (uncertain); delicate, ticklish, critical; beset with difficulties, full of difficulties, surrounded by difficulties, entangled by difficulties, encompassed with difficulties.
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| Antonyms: | facility |
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| Concept: | [Failure of expectation] Disappointment. |
| Category: | 2. To the Future |
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disappointed; disconcerted, aghast; disgruntled; out of one's reckoning.
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