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Difficulty

noun

(pl. difficulties)

An effort that is inconvenient. Synonym: trouble. "He won without any trouble" , "Had difficulty walking" , "Finished the test only with great difficulty"

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

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

The quality of being difficult. Synonym: difficultness. Antonym: ease.

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"Difficulty" Quotes from Famous Books

... full of contrition; pray proceed, and I trust you will find no great difficulty in joining your thread again. If you are disposed to retaliate, I give you free permission to criticize me to any extent when ...

— The World of Waters - A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea • Mrs. David Osborne

... affairs, and which is anxious to return to the laissez faire policy of their mid-Victorian predecessors. The point I submit is this, either Liberals do or they do not believe in the principle of self-government as applied to Ireland, and if they do adhere to it no effort is too great, no difficulty too extreme, for them to face in the attempt to solve so serious a problem. Those who think that because in 1886, and again in 1893, the Liberals, with Irish support, unsuccessfully attempted to solve the Irish question, they have thereby contracted ...

— Ireland and the Home Rule Movement • Michael F. J. McDonnell

... with reserve only, that "a cloud is where it is seen, and is not where it is not seen." But thirty years ago, in 'Modern Painters,' I pointed out (see the paragraph quoted in note 8th), the extreme difficulty of arriving at the cause of cloud outline, or explaining how, if we admitted at any given moment the atmospheric moisture to be generally diffused, it could be chilled by formal chills into formal clouds. How, ...

— The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century - Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February - 4th and 11th, 1884 • John Ruskin

... dinner they spoke again of this difficulty of the boards. O'Flynn whistled "Rory O'More" with ...

— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

... in the savage theory—that all things are endowed with life—need occasion us no difficulty. Complete consistency and tenability in such theories is not to be expected. Early men, like the lower animals, were doubtless capable of distinguishing between things living and things dead: a dog quickly discovers whether a moving object is alive. Man and beasts have in such questions ...

— Introduction to the History of Religions - Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV • Crawford Howell Toy

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