Found 3 items, similar to difficulty.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: difficulty
gerahan, kepayahan, kesukaran, kesulitan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: difficulty
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Difficulty
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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