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difficultynoun something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goalthe many difficulties that he encountered on the road from poor orphan to head of a major corporation adversity, asperity, hardness, hardship, rigor discomfort, inconvenience, nuisanceaffliction, trial, tribulationknock, misfortune, mishap, tragedybar, catch, check, clog, crimp, embarrassment, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, pons asinorum, rub, shackle, snag, stop, trammelblock, chain, deterrent, encumbrance, fetter, inhibitionhump advantage, break, opportunity something that makes a situation more complicated or difficultthere was a minor difficulty when we realized that the store had already closed complexity, complicacy, complication, convolution, intricacy aftereffect, ramification, side effect(also side reaction)subtlety, technicalityannoyance, bitch, bother, headache, inconvenience, matter, trouble fly in the ointment a feeling or declaration of disapproval or dissentthe only difficulty I have with the dress is its color—does it come in anything besides purple? challenge, complaint, demur, demurral, demurrer, exception, expostulation, fuss, kick, objection, protest, question, remonstrance, stink compunction, doubt, misgiving, qualm, scruplemisunderstandingcavil, niggle(chiefly British), quibbleargument, conflict, debate, dispute, dissent, hassle, quarrel, squabble, staticcensure, criticismdefiance, disobedience, rebelliondistrust, distrustfulness, dubiety, dubitation(archaic), incertitude, indetermination, misdoubt, mistrust, mistrustfulness, reservation, skepticism, suspicion, uncertaintyqualmishness, unease, uneasinessreluctance, unwillingness willingnessapproval, sanctionacceptance, acquiescence, agreement, assentcompliance, obedience variance of opinion on a matterthe theologian's ongoing difficulties with the Vatican contestation, controversy, debate, difference, disagreement, disputation, dispute, dissension(also dissention), dissensus, firestorm, nonconcurrence clash, collision, conflict, confliction, disaccord, discord, dissonanceapartness, divarication, divisioncombat, contention, strife, strugglealtercation, argument, bicker, falling-out, fight, kickup, misunderstanding, quarrel, set-to accord, agreement, consensus, harmony, unanimity acceptance, complianceconcord, peace in the 14th century |