difficulty
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an effort that is inconvenient
I went to a lot of trouble
Types & categories
- elbow grease hypernym
- the devil hyponym
- tsuris hyponym
Related & opposite
- bother derivation
Sense 2 noun
a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result
serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent
Types & categories
Sense 3 noun
a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome
grappling with financial difficulties
Types & categories
Sense 4 noun
the quality of being difficult
they agreed about the difficulty of the climb
Types & categories
- quality hypernym
- effortfulness hyponym
- rigor hyponym
- ruggedness hyponym
- formidability hyponym
- burdensomeness hyponym
- subtlety hyponym
- troublesomeness hyponym
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bother |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | elbow grease |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | the devil |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tsuris |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | cognitive factor |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | trouble |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | facer |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | killer |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | kink |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | pisser |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | pitfall |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | snorter |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hindrance |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | wrinkle |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | condition |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bitch |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | quandary |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | rattrap |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pinch |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | fix |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | hard time |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | strain |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | mire |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | problem |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | situation |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | urinary hesitancy |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | wall |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | ease |
| 4 | attribute | Related & opposite | difficult |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | difficult |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | quality |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | effortfulness |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | rigor |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | ruggedness |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | formidability |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | burdensomeness |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | subtlety |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | troublesomeness |