difficulty
/dˈɪfʌkʌlti/
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Noun
an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"
Noun
a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result; "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent"
Noun
a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one''s ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"
Noun
the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
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asperity
balk
baulk
bitch
booby trap
burdensomeness
check
deterrent
effortfulness
facer
fix
formidability
grimness
handicap
hard time
hardness
hardship
heaviness
hinderance
hindrance
hole
impediment
inconvenience
jam
job
kettle of fish
killer
kink
mess
mire
muddle
niceness
onerousness
oppressiveness
pickle
pinch
pisser
pitfall
plight
predicament
problem
quandary
rattrap
rigor
rigorousness
rigour
rigourousness
rough sledding
ruggedness
severeness
severity
situation
snorter
strain
stress
subtlety
the devil
toughness
trouble
troublesomeness
tsuris
urinary hesitancy
wall
worriment
wrinkle