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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
But immense civilian suffering has prompted intense international criticism of Israel, pitting the Biden administration against European countries with whom it partners closely in other respects, including assisting Ukraine as it tries, with increasing difficulty, to fend off Russia’s invasion.
Typically, closely related animal species have difficulty coexisting because they are competing for the same or similar resources.
Culturing skin microbiota in the lab setting can be challenging due to several reasons such as difficulty in replicating the unique environment of skin and the lack of effective culturing methods.
Villarreal: Was there a line or a piece of dialogue that you found came easily or with difficulty?
“When I was ready to date again, it was difficult to get back out there. The difficulty is finding a like-minded being that I can make a life with,” she said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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