difficulty

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. an effort that is inconvenient (Freq. 18)
- I went to a lot of trouble
- he won without any trouble
- had difficulty walking
- finished the test only with great difficulty
• Syn:
trouble
• Derivationally related forms:
trouble (for: trouble)
• Hypernyms:
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
• Hyponyms:
the devil, tsuris
2. a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result (Freq. 13)
- serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent
• Hypernyms:
cognitive factor
• Hyponyms:
trouble, problem, facer, killer, kink,
pisser, pitfall, booby trap, snorter, hindrance, hinderance,
hinderance, impediment, balk, baulk, check,
handicap, wrinkle
3. a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome (Freq. 11)
- grappling with financial difficulties
• Hypernyms:
condition, status
• Hyponyms:
bitch, predicament, quandary, plight, rattrap,
pinch, fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle,
pickle, kettle of fish, hard time, rough sledding, stress, strain,
mire, problem, job, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall
4. the quality of being difficult (Freq. 6)
- they agreed about the difficulty of the climb
• Syn:
difficultness
• Ant:
ease
• Derivationally related forms:
difficult (for: difficultness)
• Hypernyms:
quality
• Hyponyms:
effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor,
rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness, hardness,
ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness,
oppressiveness, subtlety, niceness, troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment
• Attrubites:
difficult, hard

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  difficultness, trouble
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  ease, easiness, simplicity, simpleness