Usually means: Challenge requiring effort to overcome.
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  1. difficulty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. difficulty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. difficulty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. difficulty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. difficulty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Difficulty, difficulty: Wordnik
  7. difficulty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. difficulty: Wiktionary
  9. difficulty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. difficulty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. difficulty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Difficulty, difficulty: Dictionary.com
  13. difficulty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. difficulty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Difficulty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. difficulty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. difficulty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. difficulty: Free Dictionary
  19. difficulty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. difficulty: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. difficulty: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. Difficulty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  23. difficulty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  24. difficulty: Rhymezone

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. difficulty: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. difficulty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. difficulty: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. difficulty: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
▸ noun:  An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
▸ noun:  (sometimes in the plural) Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning
▸ noun:  An objection.
▸ noun:  That which cannot be easily understood or believed.
▸ noun:  An awkward situation or quarrel.

Similar:
difficultness, trouble, difficultly, problem, impossibility, complexity, obstacle, arduousness, ease, unsurmountable, more...

Opposite:
ease, simplicity, effortlessness, smoothness, straightforwardness

Types:
easy, medium, hard, impossible, more...

Phrases:
with difficulty, difficulty level, difficulty breathing, difficulty swallowing, difficulty sleeping, more...

Adjectives:
great, least, much, considerable, serious, real, main, extreme, major, only, chief

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Similar:
difficultness, trouble, difficultly, problem, impossibility, complexity, obstacle, arduousness, ease, unsurmountable, more...

Opposite:
ease, simplicity, effortlessness, smoothness, straightforwardness

Types:
easy, medium, hard, impossible, more...

Phrases:
with difficulty, difficulty level, difficulty breathing, difficulty swallowing, difficulty sleeping, respiratory difficulty, learning difficulty, breathing difficulty, difficulty urinating, more...

Adjectives:
great, least, much, considerable, serious, real, main, extreme, major, only, chief

Colors:
    gray,     dark gray,     black,     deep red,     maroon, more...



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