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difficulty
noun as in problem; situation requiring great effort
Strongest matches
adversity, complication, crisis, deadlock, dilemma, frustration, hardship, hazard, obstacle, pain, predicament, snag, struggle, trouble
Strong matches
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
Weak matches
noun as in mental burden
Strongest matches
anxiety, complication, crisis, embarrassment, frustration, inconvenience, misery, predicament, pressure, setback, stress, strife, struggle, trouble, worry
Strong matches
ado, aggravation, annoyance, bafflement, bother, care, charge, depression, discouragement, distress, emergency, exigency, grievance, harassment, imbroglio, irritation, jam, maze, mess, millstone, oppression, perplexity, pickle, pinch, puzzle, quandary, ramification, responsibility, scrape, strain, strait, to-do, vicissitude, weight
Weak match
hangup
noun as in argument
Strongest matches
controversy, dispute, hassle, misunderstanding, strife, trouble
Weak match
Example Sentences
It can cause ulcers or sores around the animal's mouth and face, difficulties swallowing and breathing, fever and lameness, foetal deformities and stillbirths.
Apparently, Kennedy has never heard of the burden of proof or the extreme difficulty in proving a negative.
His solicitor told the court that his client had received treatment for mental health difficulties.
“Ease” survived, but Abbe soon sold the work to railroad baron Collis Potter Huntington to help relieve his financial difficulties.
Rev Cheshire has to attend frequent medical appointments with Adam, who is autistic, including for his profound learning difficulties, as well as hearing and sight impairments.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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