Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

difficulty

[dif-i-kuhl-tee] / ˈdɪf ɪˌkʌl ti /




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Adding to the difficulty, visible symptoms sometimes develop only after mushrooms have been shipped to grocery stores or purchased by consumers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The difficulty is finding a way to minimize their capacity to control territory without trampling republican values.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Her early symptoms began in 2008 during her Taking Chances World Tour, when she experienced difficulty controlling her voice despite doctors saying her vocal cords appeared normal, she shared with Vogue in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Through his story, the play explores losing a sense of purpose, the difficulty some men have talking about their mental health and the support they can find in each other.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Both sensed that people, and by extension markets, had difficulty attaching the appropriate probabilities to highly improbable events.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The international opposition to his Greenland proposal is just one of the difficulties of annexation today.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

Although effective, these substances can create difficulties involving safe handling, chemical waste, and the treatment of unwanted byproducts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The climate surrounding routine abductions, he adds, has "generated further difficulties on the youth of Myanmar, already affected by years of civil war, and their families".

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

It is a sign of how intractable China’s economic difficulties are—and the structural challenges leader Xi Jinping faces in addressing them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The tangent problem and the area problem both ran afoul of the same difficulties with infinities and zeros.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




Vocabulary lists containing difficulty


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training