DIFFICULTY
\dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti], \dˈɪfɪkˌʌlti], \d_ˈɪ_f_ɪ_k_ˌʌ_l_t_i]\
Definitions of DIFFICULTY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
By Princeton University
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
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The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; - opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
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Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; - usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
By Oddity Software
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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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A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
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The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; - opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
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Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; - usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Laboriousness: obstacle: objection: that which cannot be easily understood or believed: embarrassment of affairs.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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adv. With difficulty; laboriously.
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n. [French] State or quality of requiring labour, and pains to make, perform, or deal with;—a thing hard to accomplish or deal with; obstacle; hindrance;—toil-someness, as of ascent; perplexity, as of mind; objection, as to belief;—embarrassment, as in business; entanglement, as in conduct of affairs; difference or quarrel, as between related parties;—impediment, as in utterance or speech.
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Hardness, contrariety to easiness; that which is hard to accomplish; dirtress, opposition; perplexity in affairs; objection, cavil.
By Thomas Sheridan
