Noun: difficulty di-fi-kul-tee
- Effort, exertion, or inconvenience required to accomplish something
"had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty";
- trouble
- The quality or extent of being challenging or requiring great effort to accomplish
"they agreed about the difficulty of the climb";
- difficultness
- A problematic situation or predicament
"the company found itself in real difficulty";
- fix [informal], hole [informal], jam [informal], mess [informal], muddle [informal], pickle [informal], kettle of fish [informal]
Derived forms: difficulties
Type of: effort, elbow grease [informal], exertion, quality, sweat [informal], travail [literary]
Encyclopedia: Difficulty