difficulty - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

an effort that is inconvenient

Synonyms

• difficulty
• trouble

More generic

• effort
• elbow grease
• exertion
• sweat
• travail

More specific

• the devil
• tsuris

Noun

the quality of being difficult

Synonyms

• difficultness
• difficulty

More generic

• quality

Opposite / Antonyms

• ease

More specific

• asperity
• burdensomeness
• effortfulness
• formidability
• grimness
• hardness
• hardship
• heaviness
• inconvenience
• niceness
• onerousness
• oppressiveness
• rigor
• rigorousness
• rigour
• rigourousness
• ruggedness
• severeness
• severity
• subtlety
• toughness
• troublesomeness
• worriment

Noun

a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result

Synonyms

• difficulty

More generic

• cognitive factor

More specific

• balk
• baulk
• booby trap
• check
• deterrent
• facer
• handicap
• hinderance
• hindrance
• impediment
• killer
• kink
• pisser
• pitfall
• problem
• snorter
• trouble
• wrinkle

Noun

a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome

Synonyms

• difficulty

More generic

• condition
• status

More specific

• bitch
• fix
• hard time
• hole
• jam
• job
• kettle of fish
• mess
• mire
• muddle
• pickle
• pinch
• plight
• predicament
• problem
• quandary
• rattrap
• rough sledding
• situation
• strain
• stress
• urinary hesitancy
• wall

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