hindrance

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.

liable, subject; in danger; open to, exposed to, obnoxious to; answerable; unexempt from; apt to; dependent on; incident to., contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the mercy of.

resisting; resistive, resistant; refractory (disobedient); recalcitrant, renitent; up in arms., repulsive, repellant., proof against; unconquerable (strong); stubborn, unconquered; indomitable (persevering); unyielding (obstinate).

restrained, constrained; imprisoned; pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody (prisoner); cohibitive; coactive (compulsory)., stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound., ice bound, wind bound, weather bound; "cabined cribbed confined" [Macbeth]; in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.