Definition of difficulty

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Difficulty (n.) 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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Infusibility :: Infusibility (n.) Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved; as, the infusibility of carbon..
Manganese :: Manganese (n.) An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic weight 54.8..
Deter :: Deter (v. t.) To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc..
Clamber :: Clamber (v. i.) To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively..
Succor :: Succor (v. t.) Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress..
Like :: Like (v. i.) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had like, under Like, a..
Rub :: Rub (v. i.) To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world..
Knottiness :: Knottiness (n.) Difficulty of solution; intricacy; complication.
Inextricable :: Inextricable (a.) Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion..
Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.
Lanthanum :: Lanthanum (n.) A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La..
Inconvenience :: Inconvenience (n.) That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty..
Suggest :: Suggest (v. t.) To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty..
Grind :: Grind (v. i.) To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
Doctor :: Doctor (n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine..
Burden :: Burden (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive..
Knot :: Knot (n.) Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.
Adroit :: Adroit (a.) Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply..
Quandary :: Quandary (v. t.) To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty..
Facility :: Facility (n.) The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation..
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