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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
The difficulty with Mr. Redford is, you see, as I understand it, he gets one million dollars a picture.
I do realize the difficulty in totally canceling productions of this opera.
The battle to secure that funding is testament to the difficulty in making truly independent movies.
Mary and Tom are concerned for Cumming, too, “as in the past there has been difficulty.”
The fewer diagnostic criteria required to call a person impaired, the more “any difficulty whatsoever” can be deemed impairment.
But,” said the prime minister of Flatland, starting a difficulty, “who is to be greatest chief?
The difficulty of educating handlers of bills in distant places as to American credits.
The Duke found no difficulty in awakening the wishes, which were necessary to his scheme, in the mind of young Lorraine.
Add to this, if you please, the great difficulty of obtaining from them even the words that they have.
Judge for yourself the difficulty surrounding the remainder of the symbols and fundamental truths of christianity.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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