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n. The condition or quality of being difficult: the difficulty of a task.

n. Something not easily done, accomplished, comprehended, or solved.

n. A troublesome or embarrassing state of affairs, especially of financial affairs. Often used in the plural.

n. A laborious effort; a struggle; trouble: had difficulty walking; completed the test with difficulty.

n. A disagreement or dispute.

n. Reluctance or an objection; unwillingness.

n. The state of being difficult, or hard to do.

n. An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.

n. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility

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

n. A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.

n. Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural.

n. Want of easiness or facility; hindrance to the doing of something; hardness to be accomplished or overcome; the character or condition of an undertaking which renders its performance laborious or perplexing: opposed to facility: as, a work of labor and difficulty.

n. That which is hard to accomplish or to surmount: as, to mistake difficulties for impossibilities.

n. Perplexity; complication or embarrassment of affairs, especially of pecuniary affairs; trouble; dilemma; whatever renders action or progress laborious or painful: as, a gentleman in difficulties.

n. Objection; cavil; obstruction to belief or consent.

n. An embroilment; a serious complication of feeling or opinion; a falling out; a variance or quarrel.

n. Synonyms Laboriousness, troublesomeness, arduousness.

n. Obstruction, Impediment, etc.(seeobstacle), hindrance.

n. Distress, exigency, trial, emergency, pinch.

n. an effort that is inconvenient

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

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

n. the quality of being difficult

"The main difficulty is that the data obtained from around the world does not belong to them, and obtaining permissions from all and sundry has proven to be an exhausting process."

embarrassing    austere    unmanageable    objection   

difficile    difficult   

with difficulty    difficulty level   

obstruction    trouble    impediment    objection    embarrassment    obstacle    exigency    perplexity    cavil    trial   

danger    problem    trouble    importance    necessity    failure    circumstance    weakness    error    knowledge