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]
[きゅうはく,
kyuuhaku] (n,
vs) financial difficulty; distress [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.
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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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