Definition of difficulty

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Difficulty (n.) 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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Spread :: Spread (v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty..
Help :: Help (v. t.) Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars..
Rider :: Rider (n.) A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
Scruple :: Scruple (n.) Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience..
Easiness :: Easiness (n.) Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.
Quicksand :: Quicksand (n.) Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty..
Difficulty :: Difficulty (n.) 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..
Asthma :: Asthma (n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration..
Corner :: Corner (v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument..
Molehill :: Molehill (n.) A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty..
Inextricable :: Inextricable (a.) Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion..
Clamber :: Clamber (v. i.) To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively..
Conveniency :: Conveniency (n.) Freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation..
Enodation :: Enodation (n.) The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty..
Perplexity :: Perplexity (n.) The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.
Scrape :: Scrape (n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty..
Arduously :: Arduously (adv.) In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.
Dystome :: Dystome (a.) Cleaving with difficulty.
Easily :: Easily (adv.) With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen..
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