Dictionary Entry
difficulty
difficulty is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 22 · Words With Friends 24 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
- 4noun
Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
- 5noun
an effort that is inconvenient
"I went to a lot of trouble"
"he won without any trouble"
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- 6noun
the quality of being difficult
"they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
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- 7noun
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"
- 8noun
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"
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