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Difficulty

noun

(pl. difficulties)

An effort that is inconvenient. Synonym: trouble. "He won without any trouble" , "Had difficulty walking" , "Finished the test only with great difficulty"

A factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result.

A condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome.

The quality of being difficult. Synonym: difficultness. Antonym: ease.

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"Difficulty" Quotes from Famous Books

... author of "Night Thoughts," paid a visit to Potter, son of Archbishop Potter, who lived in a deep and dirty part of Kent, through which Young had scrambled with some difficulty and danger. "Whose field was that I crossed?" asked Young, on reaching his friend. "Mine," said Potter. "True," replied the poet; "Potter's field ...

— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon

... serving under Colonel Fielding. In August 1710 a difficulty arose through Arbuthnot trying to get his brother George made Captain over Bernage's head; but ultimately Arbuthnot waived the business, because he would not wrong ...

— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift

... and his whole frame trembled. His hand clutched the wine-glass which he held, and he seemed to breathe with difficulty. ...

— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... at first too terribly stung by the words about Captain Wybrow to think of the difficulty which threatened her—to think either of what Sir Christopher would say to her, or of what she could say in reply. Bitter sense of injury, fierce resentment, left no room for fear. With the poisoned garment upon him, the ...

— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot

... northern Spain, where he conquered all before him. Then he marched through Gaul to the Rhone. This he crossed in the face of an army of hostile Gauls, who had gathered to oppose him. He had more difficulty with his elephants, of which he had thirty-seven. Rafts were built to convey these great beasts across the stream, but some of them, frightened, leaped overboard and drowned their drivers. They then swam across themselves, and all ...

— Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

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