At first he had difficulty telling one student from another.
difficulty
At first, I had difficulty understanding people when they spoke too fast.
difficulty
Did you have any difficulty in finding my house?
difficulty
Do you understand the difficulty of my job?
difficulty
Especially over the last 20 years, the purported link between progressive welfare policies and economic failure in the Northern European countries seems to point to the difficulty of sustaining both full social welfare and international competitivity.
difficulty
For good or ill, there is no way but this to tide over the difficulty.
Schwierigkeit {f}; Problem {n}; Problematik {f} | Schwierigkeiten {pl} | voller Schwierigkeiten | in Schwierigkeiten geraten | Schwierigkeiten bekommen | eine Schwierigkeit meistern | auf Schwierigkeiten stoßen; Schwierigkeiten haben
difficulty | difficulties; difficulty | fraught with difficulty | to get into difficulty | to run into difficulties | to overcome a difficulty | to experience difficulties [Add to Longdo]
[, sunnari] (adv,adv-to,vs) (1) (on-mim) slim; slender; (2) (on-mim) smoothly; without resistance; without trouble; without difficulty; without dissent; easily; readily [Add to Longdo]
[, yoiyoi] (n) (col) (sens) locomotor ataxia; difficulty walking or speaking (due to alcoholism, a stroke, etc.); someone with this problem [Add to Longdo]
[きたくこんなんしゃ, kitakukonnansha] (n) travellers (e.g. commuters, students, etc.) who have difficulty returning home, esp. after a large-scale earthquake [Add to Longdo]
[きゅうすればつうず, kyuusurebatsuuzu] (exp) Necessity is the mother of invention; There is always some way out of a difficulty if you really look for one [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
[1913 Webster]
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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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}, {difficulty}]
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: {difficulty}, {difficultness}]
[ant: {ease}, {easiness}, {simpleness}, {simplicity}]
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