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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.

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"Difficulty" Quotes from Famous Books

... With this difficulty we arrive at the last and crucial phase of my investigation. Having the foregoing points clearly in mind, I spent the rest of the day before the inquest in talking to various persons and in going over my story, testing it link by link. I could only find the one weakness which ...

— Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black • E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley

... the night in them; a dry shred of palm-branch, the colour of the sand, round the hole, formed a screen to put the gun through. Their flesh was most excellent eating—half-way between meat and fish: I had it several times. The difficulty of shooting them was, that the falcons and spurwing-plovers would hover round the pit, when the crocodiles invariably took to the water. Their sight and hearing were good, but their scent indifferent. I generally got a shot or two at daybreak ...

— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton

... that Mr. Theobalds should see any Difficulty in this; for it is but applying to the King what Horatio says, who knew the whole Affair, and then his Answer is just and true; and indeed, I think it cannot well be understood in any other Sense from the whole ...

— Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) • Anonymous

... and fenced their claims, such pioneer roads were blocked at intervals. To meet this difficulty new trails were made around the gradually increasing obstacles and in the end roads along section lines were laid out, with grading and bridging. But the wagon and cattle trails of the early days, rut-cut, storm-washed, and ...

— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman

... a mistake. Princess Gregoriev's lips went white, and she seemed to speak with difficulty. "Caroline! Then you were not assured by him? You as well as Michael have ...

— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter

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