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  Difficulty \Dif"fi*cul*ty\, n.; pl. Difficulties. [L.
     difficultas, fr. difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis
     easy: cf. F. difficult['e]. See Facile.]
     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.
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              Not being able to promote them [the interests of
              life] on account of the difficulty of the region.
                                                    --James Byrne.
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     2. Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand;
        that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires
        skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a
        hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the
        difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
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              They lie under some difficulties by reason of the
              emperor's displeasure.                --Addison.
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     3. A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an
        objection; a cavil.
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              Measures for terminating all local difficulties.
                                                    --Bancroft.
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     4. Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; --
        usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
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              In days of difficulty and pressure.   --Tennyson.
  
     Syn: Impediment; obstacle; obstruction; embarrassment;
          perplexity; exigency; distress; trouble; trial;
          objection; cavil. See Impediment.
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  Difficulty \Dif"fi*cul*ty\, n.; pl. Difficulties. [L.
     difficultas, fr. difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis
     easy: cf. F. difficult['e]. See Facile.]
     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 [the interests of
              life] 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 and 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.

  difficulty
       n 1: 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"
            [syn: trouble]
       2: 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"
       3: 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"
       4: the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the
          difficulty of the climb" [syn: difficultness] [ant: ease]

  difficulty
     Αγγλικά n.
     η δυσκολία

  difficulty
     n.
     1 The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
     2 An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal. <!-- Could be
  shortened to problem, just that problem is defined in terms of
  difficulty. -->

  difficulty
     n.
     1 The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
     2 An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal. <!-- Could be
  shortened to problem, just that problem is defined in terms of
  difficulty. -->

  difficulty
     n.
     1 The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
     2 An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal. <!-- Could be
  shortened to problem, just that problem is defined in terms of
  difficulty. -->

  difficulty
     n.
     1 The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
     2 An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal. <!-- Could be
  shortened to problem, just that problem is defined in terms of
  difficulty. -->

  difficulty
     Englanti n.
     vaikeus

  difficulty
     Engelska n.
     svårighet

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  moeilikheid

  Difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  الصعوبة

  difficulty //ˈdɪfɪkəlti// 
  1. затруднение, препятствие, пречка
  obstacle
  2. мъчнотия, трудност
  state of being difficult

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  úskalí

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  potíž

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  obtížnost

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  obtíž

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/ 
  anhawster 

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  Beschwerlichkeit 
   see: difficulties, with difficulty
  

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  Schwierigkeit 
           Note: bei etw.
        "fraught with difficulty"  - voller Schwierigkeiten
        "get into difficulty"  - in Schwierigkeiten geraten
        "overcome a difficulty"  - eine Schwierigkeit meistern
   see: difficulties, difficulty, financial embarrassment, experience difficulties
  
           Note: in doing sth.

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  Schwierigkeiten 
        "fraught with difficulty"  - voller Schwierigkeiten
        "get into difficulty"  - in Schwierigkeiten geraten
        "overcome a difficulty"  - eine Schwierigkeit meistern
     Synonym: difficulties
  
   see: difficulty, financial embarrassment, experience difficulties
  

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  
  δυσκολία, δυσχέρεια

  difficulty //ˈdɪfɪkəlti// 
  1. este, hankaluus
  obstacle
  2. vaikeus, hankaluus
  state of being difficult

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/ 
  1. कठिनता
        "There are lot of difficulties in climbing the mountain."

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  nedaća, neprijatnost, tegoba, teškoća, težak, tjeskoba

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  1. bonyolultság
  2. nehézség
  3. akadály

  difficulty //ˈdɪfɪkəlti// 
  kesukaran
  state of being difficult

  difficulty //ˈdɪfɪkəlti// 
  1. 困難, 障害
  obstacle
  2. 難しさ
  state of being difficult

  difficulty /dıfəkʌltı/ 
  kebli padėtis, sunkumas, kliūtis, apsunkinimas, kliuvinys

  difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəltɪ/ 
   1.  trudność
   2.  have difficulty doing sth (have V: :difficulty VBG NP)
   - robić coś z trudem, robić coś z trudnością
   3.  in difficulty/difficulties (:in [:difficulty | :difficulties])
   - w przypadku trudności, w przypadku kłopotów

  difficulty /difikəltiː/
  dificuldade, apuro

  difficulty /difikəltiː/
  inconveniente

  difficulty //ˈdɪfɪkəlti// 
  1. möda
  obstacle
  2. svårighet, besvär
  state of being difficult

  difficulty /dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti/
  1. güçlük zorluk, müşkülât: güç şey, engel, mânia: nazlanma, itiraz
  2. sıkıntı, problem. be in difficulties parasız kalmak. make veya raise a difficulty güçlük çıkarmak.

  
/ˈdɪfəkəɫti/, /ˈdɪfɪˌkəɫti/

  168 Moby Thesaurus words for "difficulty":
     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
  
  

  n. 困难;

     n. U困难,艰难;C难点,难事,困境;异议,反对,争论