Difficulty

Noun

 * 1) The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
 * 2) An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
 * We faced a difficulty.

Adjectives for Difficulty
immense; great; huge; tremendous; enormous; overwhelming; formidable; redoubtable; unbelievable; amazing; supreme; innumerable (pi) ; grave; serious; agrarian; domestic; emotional; administrative; technical; diplomatic; physical; economic; religious; appalling; financial; fiscal; evident; obvious; inherent; identical; underlying; insurmountable; vital; peculiar; practical; necessary; problematic; familiar; initial; insuperable; unpleasant; lamentable; invincible; conspicuous; unforeseen; functional; alarming; recurrent; endless; disheartening; relative; principal; censorship; bargaining; visual; baffling; impending; incredible; considerable; unprecedented.

Verbs for Difficulty
adjust—; attend with—; belittle—; beset by—; breathe with—; clear up—; comprehend—; conclude—; confront with—; conquer—; contend with—; demonstrate—; double—; eliminate—; encounter—; escape—; estimate—; evade—; experience—; go to the root of—; grapple with—; grasp—; impose—; impress with—; iron out-—; labor in—; minimize—; obliterate—; obviate—; pass—; perceive—; raise—; remedy—; rouse with—; shirk—; smooth away—; stir up—; strew with—; surmount—; weigh—; wrestle with; —ies accumulate; —ies arise; —grows out of; —intervenes; — looms; —persists.

Synonyms for Difficulty
quarrel, contention, argument, obstruction, impediment, dispute, obstacle, perplexity, trouble, problem, worry, annoyance, loss, embarrassment, discouragement, anxiety, distress, dilemma, complication, intricacy, entanglement, oppression.

Antonyms for Difficulty
comfort, ease, facility, pliancy, flexibility, pleasure, contentment, felicity, satisfaction, gratification.

Derived terms

 * difficulty level
 * with difficulty

Related terms

 * difficile
 * difficult

Thesaurus
Gordian knot, abstruseness, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, agreement to disagree, altercation, annoyance, arduousness, asperity, bad news, bedevilment, beef, bickering, blight, block, blockade, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, bottleneck, bummer, burden, burthen, care, cargo, catch, challenge, charge, complexity, complication, controversy, cordon, crabbedness, crampedness, crashing bore, cross, cross-purposes, cumbrance, curse, curtain, deadweight, deepness, demurral, demurrer, determent, deterrent, devilment, difference, difference of opinion, difficulties, dilemma, disadvantage, disagreement, disparity, dispute, distress, dividedness, division, dogging, downer, drag, drawback, embarrassment, emergency, encumbrance, esoterica, exasperation, exigency, falling-out, fight, fix, formidableness, freight, hamper, handicap, hang-up, harassment, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardness, hardship, harrying, hassle, hazard, headache, heavy sledding, hindrance, hitch, hot water, hounding, hurdle, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, intricacy, irritation, jam, joker, knottiness, laboriousness, load, lumber, mess, misunderstanding, molestation, nuisance, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, odds, one small difficulty, onus, pack, painfulness, pass, penalty, persecution, pest, pickle, pinch, pitfall, plight, polarization, predicament, pressure, problem, profoundness, profundity, protest, quandary, question, reconditeness, remonstrance, remonstration, rigor, rub, scrape, sea of troubles, snag, squabble, strain, strait, straits, stress, stress of life, stumbling block, stumbling stone, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, vale of tears, variance, vexation, vexatiousness, vicissitude, vigor, weight, white elephant, worriment, worry

Etymology
< difficultee: <  difficulte: <  difficultas: < difficul:, older form of difficilis: < dis-: + facilis:; see difficile and difficult.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: трудност, мъчнотия
 * Catalan: dificultat
 * Crimean Tatar: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sværhed, vanskelighed
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Schwierigkeit (de)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: קושי (qoshi)


 * Hindi: (mushkil),  (kaṭhināī)
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: dificultate
 * Russian:, сложность
 * Scottish Gaelic: duilgheadas, cruas , cruadal , spàirn , docaireachd , èiginn , teanntachd ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: కష్టం (kashTam)
 * Urdu: (mushkil)


 * Bulgarian: пречка, затруднение,  препятствие
 * Catalan: dificultat
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: besvær
 * Dutch:


 * Haitian Creole:
 * Kurdish: زه‌حمه‌تی
 * Romanian: dificultate,, obstacol
 * Russian: