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difficulty
noun as in problem; situation requiring great effort
Strongest matches
adversity, complication, crisis, deadlock, dilemma, frustration, hardship, hazard, obstacle, pain, predicament, snag, struggle, trouble
Strong matches
arduousness, awkwardness, barricade, check, crux, distress, emergency, exigency, fix, hindrance, hitch, impasse, knot, labor, laboriousness, mess, misfortune, muddle, obstruction, painfulness, paradox, perplexity, pickle, quagmire, quandary, scrape, stew, strain, strait, strenuousness, tribulation
Weak matches
noun as in mental burden
Strongest matches
anxiety, complication, crisis, embarrassment, frustration, inconvenience, misery, predicament, pressure, setback, stress, strife, struggle, trouble, worry
Strong matches
ado, aggravation, annoyance, bafflement, bother, care, charge, depression, discouragement, distress, emergency, exigency, grievance, harassment, imbroglio, irritation, jam, maze, mess, millstone, oppression, perplexity, pickle, pinch, puzzle, quandary, ramification, responsibility, scrape, strain, strait, to-do, vicissitude, weight
Weak match
noun as in argument
Strongest matches
controversy, dispute, hassle, misunderstanding, strife, trouble
Weak match
Example Sentences
One difficulty stopping the boats is that it is legal to carry inflatables across Europe; they might be used for a fishing trip.
Ofgem said the £14.5m total payment is "in recognition of the impact on its customers, many of which may have faced financial difficulty".
"There needs to be a wider network of services in place to support families when such difficulties arise and enable children to quickly return to the classroom."
The most common problems include chronic headaches, difficulty swallowing and decreased muscle strength, as well as syringomyelia, a condition that occurs when a cyst forms in the spinal cord.
Children experiencing underlying issues, such as anxiety, trauma, or learning challenges, may have more difficulty managing anger, Clark says.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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