difficulty

1. An effort that is inconvenient (synset 100625102)
   "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"
   is a type of: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail - use of physical or mental energy; hard work
   subtypes:

   • the devil - something difficult or awkward to do or deal with
   • tsuris - (Yiddish) aggravating trouble
   same as: trouble
2. A factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result (synset 105694760)
   "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent"
   is a type of: cognitive factor - something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result
   subtypes:

   • problem, trouble - a source of difficulty
   • facer - (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced
   • killer - a difficulty that is hard to deal with
   • kink - a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
   • pisser - a very disagreeable difficulty
   • booby trap, pitfall - an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
   • snorter - something outstandingly difficult
   • balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment - something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
   • wrinkle - a minor difficulty
3. A condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome (synset 114431490)
   "grappling with financial difficulties"
   is a type of: condition, status - a state at a particular time
   subtypes:

   • bitch - an unpleasant difficulty
   • plight, predicament, quandary - a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
   • rattrap - a difficult entangling situation
   • pinch - a painful or straitened circumstance
   • fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle - informal terms for a difficult situation
   • hard time, rough sledding - a difficulty that can be overcome with effort
   • strain, stress - difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
   • mire - a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
   • job, problem - a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
   • situation - a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
   • urinary hesitancy - difficulty in beginning the flow of urine; associated with prostate enlargement in men and with narrowing of the urethral opening in women; may be caused by emotional stress in either men or women
   • wall - a difficult or awkward situation
4. The quality of being difficult (synset 104716529)
   "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
   tells us about: difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
   is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
   subtypes:

   • effortfulness - the quality of requiring deliberate effort
   • asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity - something hard to endure
   • hardness, ruggedness - the quality of being difficult to do
   • formidability, toughness - impressive difficulty
   • burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness - unwelcome burdensome difficulty
   • niceness, subtlety - the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
   • inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment - a difficulty that causes anxiety
   same as: difficultness

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