Thesaurus / difficulties
other words for difficulties
- adversity
- complication
- crisis
- deadlock
- dilemma
- frustration
- hardship
- hazard
- obstacle
- pain
- predicament
- snag
- struggle
- trouble
- arduousness
- awkwardness
- barricade
- check
- crux
- distress
- emergency
- exigency
- fix
- hindrance
- hitch
- impasse
- knot
- labor
- laboriousness
- mess
- misfortune
- muddle
- obstruction
- painfulness
- paradox
- perplexity
- pickle
- quagmire
- quandary
- scrape
- stew
- strain
- strait
- strenuousness
- tribulation
- dead end
- deep water
- hot water
- stumbling block
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I could not help wishing that I had gone with them, to share the difficulties and dangers they might meet.
THE WANDERERSW.H.G. KINGSTON
It set him thinking that it might be a prudish strain in the young man's mind, due to the System in difficulties.
THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITH
Night and day he had been examining evidence, pondering the difficulties to be overcome, and the chances of success.
The transportation of certain kinds of seeds over long distances, especially on sea voyages, is often beset with difficulties.
THE NURSERY BOOKLIBERTY HYDE BAILEY
That there are difficulties in the way of believing thus, I grant; that there are impossibilities, I deny.
HOPE OF THE GOSPELGEORGE MACDONALD
King Philip agreed to meet this council in a new attempt to adjust all their difficulties.
KING PHILIPJOHN S. C. (JOHN STEVENS CABOT) ABBOTT
It suddenly occurred to him that he would go over to Ingleside and talk over his difficulties with Mrs. Blythe.
RAINBOW VALLEYLUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
Pelle had no objection to the cheap money; there were still plenty of difficulties to overcome.
PELLE THE CONQUEROR, COMPLETEMARTIN ANDERSON NEXO
There are difficulties to be encountered in religion, but there are difficulties to be encountered everywhere.
THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKINGDALE CARNAGEY (AKA DALE CARNEGIE) AND J. BERG ESENWEIN
Then said the men that met them, "You have but two difficulties more to meet with, and then you are in the City."
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS BY JOHN BUNYANJOHN BUNYAN
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.