Word Meanings - DIFFICULTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not

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difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not being able to promote them on account of the difficulty of the region. James Byrne. 2. Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology. They lie under some difficulties by reason of the emperor's displeasure. Addison. 3. A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil. Measures for terminating all local difficulties. Bancroft. 4. Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties. In days of difficulty and pressure. Tennyson. Syn. -- Impediment; obstacle; obstruction; embarrassment; perplexity; exigency; distress; trouble; trial; objection; cavil. See Impediment.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIFFICULTY)

• Burden
• Load
• weight
• Incubus
• obstruction
• oppression
• grief
• difficulty
• affliction
• Dilemma
• Fix
• hobble
• quandary
• doubt
• scrape
• Doubt
• Dubiousness
• dubitation
• scruple
• hesitation
• suspense
• distrust
• suspicion
• perplexity
• uncertainty
• ambiguity
• indecision
• Emergency
• Crisis
• conjunction
• pitch
• embarrassment
• strait
• necessity
• exigency
• casualty
• Knot
• Tie
• bond
• intricacy
• cluster
• collection
• band
• group
• protuberance
• joint

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIFFICULTY)

• Decide
• determine
• resolve
• assent
• Lubricate
• polish
• levigate
• dig
• indent
• wound

Related words: (words related to DIFFICULTY)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• DUBIOUSNESS
  State of being dubious.
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• DILEMMA
  An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses. Note: The following are instances of the dilemma. A young rhetorician applied to an old sophist to be
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• STRAIT
  A variant of Straight.
• JOINTWEED
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• DISTRUSTLESS
  Free from distrust. Shenstone.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• DUBITATION
  Act of doubting; doubt. Sir T. Scott.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• INDENTMENT
  Indenture.
• UNJOINT
  To disjoint.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• AUCTION PITCH
  A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.