Definition for Difficulty:

• State of being hard or perplexing; something hard to do; scruple; objection; hindrance.

Synonyms for Difficulty:

• n.

  •
  • hazard,
  • crisis,
  • maze,
  • bind,
  • crimp,
  • cul de sac,
  • muddle,
  • rigor,
  • disadvantage,
  • barricade,
  • knot,
  • disturbance,
  • hot water,
  • deadlock,
  • challenge,
  • setback,
  • joker,
  • check,
  • standstill,
  • pinch,
  • embarrassment,
  • hump,
  • snag,
  • frustration,
  • scrape,
  • slough,
  • toughie,
  • quicksand,
  • swamp,
  • hitch,
  • quagmire,
  • emergency,
  • vicissitude,
  • issue,
  • struggle,
  • rub,
  • nuisance,
  • impasse,
  • stumbling block,
  • labyrinth,
  • squeeze,
  • catch,
  • baggage,
  • corner,
  • mess,
  • can of worms,
  • inconvenience,
  • pass,
  • paradox,
  • poser,
  • entanglement.
  •
  • millstone,
  • pressure,
  • strain,
  • pain,
  • anxiety,
  • headache,
  • weight,
  • harassment,
  • irritation,
  • responsibility,
  • ado,
  • stew,
  • to-do,
  • strife,
  • aggravation,
  • discouragement,
  • grievance,
  • charge,
  • annoyance,
  • care,
  • depression,
  • exigency,
  • stress,
  • oppression.
  •
  • rigorousness.
  •
  • asperity,
  • easy.
  •
  • dutch,
  • hot spot,
  • spot,
  • box,
  • soup.
  •
  • discord,
  • dissension,
  • faction,
  • clash,
  • dissidence,
  • disaccord,
  • contention,
  • difference,
  • dissent,
  • variance,
  • dissonance,
  • discordance,
  • conflict,
  • war,
  • Inharmony,
  • warfare,
  • dissentience,
  • confrontation,
  • schism,
  • friction.
  •
  • dispute,
  • controversy,
  • squabble,
  • wrangle,
  • disagreement,
  • argument,
  • quarrel,
  • tangle,
  • run-in,
  • polemic,
  • altercation,
  • bicker,
  • spat,
  • debate,
  • fight,
  • rhubarb,
  • word,
  • tiff.
  •act (noun)
  • trouble.
  •adversity (noun)
  • destitution,
  • casualty,
  • disaster,
  • agony,
  • catastrophe,
  • blight,
  • misery,
  • bad luck,
  • curse,
  • poorness,
  • hard luck,
  • bane,
  • infliction,
  • misadventure,
  • mishap,
  • trial,
  • contretemps,
  • affliction,
  • misfortune,
  • tragedy,
  • peril,
  • adversity,
  • grief,
  • trouble,
  • torment,
  • burden,
  • hardship,
  • rainy day,
  • poverty,
  • tribulation,
  • distress,
  • dolor,
  • calamity,
  • woe,
  • hard times,
  • ordeal.
  •aggravation (noun)
  • headache.
  •argument (noun)
  • controversy,
  • misunderstanding,
  • quarrel,
  • squabble,
  • fight,
  • dispute,
  • bickering,
  • beef,
  • altercation,
  • hassle.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • run-around.
  •complexity (noun)
  • entanglement,
  • puzzle,
  • subtlety,
  • Cabalism,
  • mystery,
  • intricacy,
  • convolution,
  • complexity,
  • abstruseness,
  • obscurity.
  •crisis (noun)
  • dilemma,
  • Exigence.
  •difficulty (noun)
  • strait,
  • involvement,
  • cantankerousness,
  • ticklishness,
  • formidability,
  • difficultness,
  • fussiness,
  • cumbersomeness,
  • matter,
  • onerousness,
  • roughness,
  • tightness,
  • contrariness,
  • muddle,
  • wearisomeness,
  • trouble,
  • complication,
  • wearying,
  • harshness,
  • corner,
  • toughness,
  • hardness,
  • knottiness,
  • oppressiveness,
  • strenuousness,
  • arduousness,
  • severity,
  • trickiness,
  • stressfulness.
  •disagreement (noun)
  • quarrel.
  •disappointment (noun)
  • frustration,
  • setback.
  •doubt (noun)
  • demurral.
  •hang-up (noun)
  • hangup.
  •hell (noun)
  • living hell.
  •hindrance (noun)
  • setback,
  • stumbling block.
  •hopelessness (noun)
  • impossibility.
  •mental burden (noun)
  • grievance,
  • puzzle,
  • irritation,
  • inconvenience,
  • depression,
  • responsibility,
  • strife,
  • imbroglio,
  • maze,
  • setback,
  • misery,
  • pressure,
  • anxiety,
  • millstone,
  • hangup,
  • ramification,
  • stress,
  • charge,
  • vicissitude,
  • to-do,
  • ado,
  • discouragement,
  • harassment,
  • bother,
  • weight,
  • pinch,
  • care,
  • bafflement,
  • worry,
  • aggravation,
  • oppression,
  • embarrassment,
  • jam,
  • annoyance.
  •millstone (noun)
  • millstone.
  •objection (noun)
  • flak,
  • objection,
  • unwillingness,
  • demur,
  • reluctance.
  •pitfall (noun)
  • quicksand.
  •poverty (noun)
  • pauperism,
  • Neediness,
  • impecuniousness,
  • Impecuniosity.
  •predicament (noun)
  • perplexity,
  • jam,
  • pickle,
  • dilemma,
  • quandary,
  • fix,
  • problem,
  • predicament,
  • plight.
  •problem; situation requiring great effort (noun)
  • crisis,
  • quagmire,
  • obstruction,
  • paradox,
  • pain,
  • painfulness,
  • hazard,
  • deadlock,
  • adversity,
  • trouble,
  • hitch,
  • frustration,
  • fix,
  • predicament,
  • stew,
  • check,
  • strait,
  • hardship,
  • emergency,
  • knot,
  • crux,
  • complication,
  • dilemma,
  • strain,
  • distress,
  • snag,
  • stumbling block,
  • perplexity,
  • barricade,
  • awkwardness,
  • struggle,
  • dead end,
  • tribulation,
  • arduousness,
  • quandary,
  • mess,
  • strenuousness,
  • muddle,
  • hindrance,
  • exigency,
  • hot water,
  • impasse,
  • labor,
  • pickle,
  • scrape,
  • misfortune,
  • obstacle,
  • laboriousness.
  •scruple (noun)
  • scruple.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • hot potato,
  • Inharmony,
  • exigency,
  • snag,
  • nuisance,
  • disruption,
  • fight,
  • discordance,
  • run-in,
  • hot spot,
  • dissentience,
  • stumbling block,
  • pitfall,
  • toughie,
  • rhubarb,
  • dutch,
  • jigsaw.
  •
  • dissonance,
  • debate,
  • disturbance,
  • annoyance,
  • disadvantage,
  • challenge,
  • millstone,
  • baggage,
  • dissidence,
  • quarrel,
  • vexation,
  • box,
  • hot water,
  • hurdle,
  • odds,
  • tax,
  • dissension,
  • altercation,
  • obstruction,
  • strain,
  • quagmire,
  • aggravation,
  • friction,
  • uncertainty,
  • soup,
  • confusion,
  • hitch,
  • sorrow,
  • rub,
  • tiff,
  • doubt,
  • downfall,
  • controversy,
  • undoing,
  • headache,
  • polemic.
  •
  • disagreement,
  • state,
  • contention,
  • strife,
  • spat,
  • schism,
  • care,
  • issue,
  • variance,
  • disaccord,
  • dog,
  • consideration,
  • ill.
  •
  • faction,
  • kink,
  • war,
  • wrangle,
  • warfare,
  • scrape,
  • conflict,
  • discord,
  • argument,
  • catch,
  • confrontation.
  •
  • dispute,
  • spot.
  •
  • bind.
  •
  • difference.
  •
  • word.
  •accident
  • emergency.
  •bar
  • barrier.
  •bother
  • inconvenience.
  •distress
  • suffering.
  •disturbance
  • unpleasantness.
  •hardship
  • asperity.
  •horror
  • bugbear.
  •intricacy
  • involution.
  •mutability
  • vicissitude.
  •problem
  • nut.
  •rigidity
  • rigor.
  •test
  • crunch.
  •Other relevant words:
  • extremity,
  • counterpoise,
  • frustrate,
  • pack,
  • deformity,
  • noise,
  • maze,
  • bothersome,
  • esoterica,
  • detriment,
  • hurdle,
  • troubles,
  • balk,
  • kink,
  • bummer,
  • stumbling block,
  • situation,
  • enigma,
  • flak,
  • snarl,
  • bicker,
  • swamp,
  • fastidiousness,
  • asperity,
  • suffering,
  • Cumbrance,
  • soup,
  • bafflement,
  • bewilderment,
  • double bind,
  • foil,
  • downfall,
  • war,
  • difficult,
  • ado,
  • embarrassment,
  • pitfall,
  • corner,
  • bad fortune,
  • impede,
  • curb,
  • bickering,
  • difficultness,
  • defer,
  • atmospherics,
  • disruption,
  • estoppel,
  • circumstances,
  • Water-logged,
  • done up,
  • dogging,
  • onus,
  • clash,
  • deterrent,
  • austerity,
  • Sinewless,
  • labyrinth,
  • polarization,
  • dam up,
  • quodlibet,
  • distortion,
  • restraint,
  • tangle,
  • vale of tears,
  • pest,
  • protest,
  • harassment,
  • frustration,
  • emergency,
  • painful,
  • disdainful,
  • tether,
  • entanglement,
  • mischief,
  • setback,
  • rigorous,
  • dissension,
  • pass,
  • bore,
  • cramped,
  • washout,
  • defect,
  • Exigence,
  • inconvenience,
  • cordon,
  • oppose,
  • need,
  • persecution,
  • reversal,
  • disputation,
  • delay,
  • difference,
  • hard,
  • laborious,
  • proscribe,
  • not easy,
  • bitterness,
  • determent,
  • variance,
  • penalty,
  • exception,
  • sensibility,
  • liability,
  • discord,
  • nerveless,
  • exigency,
  • pressure,
  • awkwardness,
  • spat,
  • objection,
  • head wind,
  • crisis,
  • devilment,
  • hump,
  • reprove,
  • impediment,
  • oppression,
  • anguish,
  • arduous,
  • straits,
  • unhinged,
  • catch,
  • snafu,
  • master,
  • deadlock,
  • palsied,
  • baffle,
  • rigour,
  • insuperable,
  • deadweight,
  • state,
  • holdup,
  • exacting,
  • difference of opinion,
  • quagmire,
  • forestall,
  • wrong,
  • open question,
  • box,
  • drawback,
  • superiority,
  • knot,
  • argument,
  • imbecile,
  • facer,
  • nuisance,
  • worry,
  • scold,
  • crashing bore,
  • rudderless,
  • care,
  • complaint,
  • powerless,
  • grind,
  • interference,
  • arrest,
  • load,
  • precarious position,
  • foul-up,
  • contestation,
  • confrontation,
  • albatross,
  • paralytic,
  • millstone,
  • have to,
  • distance,
  • quicksand,
  • inscrutability,
  • ill timed,
  • hot spot,
  • scruple,
  • division,
  • complicatedness,
  • hot potato,
  • exhausted,
  • constraint,
  • obstruct,
  • impasse,
  • hard work,
  • grievance,
  • sense of shame,
  • responsibility,
  • hindrance,
  • indigence,
  • bother,
  • cargo,
  • odds,
  • not good,
  • drudgery,
  • severe,
  • privation,
  • impedimenta,
  • impenetrability,
  • labor,
  • friction,
  • bedevilment,
  • detraction,
  • Hypercriticism,
  • Unfriended,
  • disparity,
  • cause,
  • set back,
  • consequence,
  • travail,
  • Harrying,
  • tide over,
  • disadvantage,
  • undoing,
  • defeat,
  • hold back,
  • vexation,
  • emasculate,
  • confine,
  • slough,
  • imbroglio,
  • depth,
  • conflict,
  • unable,
  • cross-purposes,
  • dog,
  • fly,
  • ill,
  • demoralized,
  • indecipherability,
  • cul de sac,
  • encumbrance,
  • exasperation,
  • obstinacy,
  • unintelligibility,
  • Exigencies,
  • strait,
  • struggle,
  • imposition,
  • Pithless,
  • spot,
  • cumber,
  • sensitive,
  • faction,
  • out of joint,
  • Intricateness,
  • kick,
  • hot water,
  • obstructive,
  • scrape,
  • anxiety,
  • protestation,
  • destitute,
  • rhubarb,
  • altercation,
  • hors de combat,
  • rely on,
  • hiccup,
  • strict,
  • unpleasantness,
  • strife,
  • flaw,
  • static,
  • nicety,
  • incomprehensibleness,
  • dissentience,
  • hornet's nest,
  • easy,
  • Involvedness,
  • disturbance,
  • joker,
  • obstacle,
  • trammel,
  • reverse,
  • dutch,
  • press,
  • block,
  • rout,
  • Marrowless,
  • prohibit,
  • uphill work,
  • rocky,
  • bind,
  • disappointment,
  • check,
  • laboriousness,
  • toughie,
  • heavy sledding,
  • botheration,
  • fight,
  • controversy,
  • disjointed,
  • tax,
  • handicap,
  • hairiness,
  • nut,
  • kettle of fish,
  • matter,
  • rub,
  • hurt,
  • tough job,
  • Remonstration,
  • rugged,
  • deeply,
  • dividedness,
  • opacity,
  • concern,
  • clog,
  • with much ado,
  • troublesome,
  • discordance,
  • vicissitude,
  • fuss,
  • bogey,
  • stoppage,
  • bothersomeness,
  • question,
  • harm,
  • incomprehensibility,
  • Inharmony,
  • rigor,
  • impedance,
  • irritant,
  • implication,
  • deter,
  • blockade,
  • hardcase,
  • lumber,
  • screw up,
  • effect,
  • Incommodity,
  • firestorm,
  • intense,
  • can of worms,
  • surpass,
  • in difficulty,
  • schism,
  • hang-up,
  • embarrass,
  • evil,
  • Gordian Knot,
  • at cross purposes,
  • encumber,
  • demur,
  • Hounding,
  • confusion,
  • involvement,
  • hazard,
  • trauma,
  • falling out,
  • impossibility,
  • crimp,
  • stew,
  • consideration,
  • bar,
  • danger,
  • urgency,
  • crux,
  • standstill,
  • run-in,
  • weight,
  • uneasiness,
  • squabble,
  • in extremis,
  • upset,
  • imperfection,
  • discourage,
  • opposition,
  • challenge,
  • block up,
  • unnerved,
  • annoyance,
  • Dead lift,
  • position,
  • ought to,
  • against the grain,
  • in hot water,
  • delicacy,
  • living hell,
  • toil,
  • suffer,
  • penury,
  • involution,
  • destruction,
  • white elephant,
  • squeeze,
  • hassle,
  • pain,
  • ill luck,
  • sore,
  • Formidableness,
  • bugbear,
  • rigorousness,
  • want,
  • graveled,
  • barricade,
  • deprivation,
  • with difficulty,
  • Vexatiousness,
  • beef,
  • discouragement,
  • beggary,
  • Difficulties,
  • helpless,
  • reconditeness,
  • aggravation,
  • worriment,
  • uncertainty,
  • dead end,
  • stink,
  • debate,
  • forbid,
  • dubiousness,
  • case,
  • damage,
  • unwillingness,
  • Porism,
  • finesse,
  • balls-up,
  • reluctance,
  • crippled,
  • crabbedness,
  • secret,
  • tiff,
  • mess,
  • Complicacy,
  • bone of contention,
  • remonstrance,
  • deepness,
  • shattered,
  • snarl-up,
  • tight spot,
  • barrier,
  • injury,
  • word,
  • moot point,
  • bad news,
  • impecuniousness,
  • friandise,
  • lookout,
  • demurrer,
  • dissuade,
  • hole,
  • dissonance,
  • jigsaw,
  • interruption,
  • muddle,
  • hard knocks,
  • Nonconcurrence,
  • sorrow,
  • debar,
  • job,
  • freight,
  • stress,
  • run-around,
  • dispute,
  • dissensus,
  • charge,
  • pinch,
  • dissidence,
  • demurral,
  • Lustless,
  • obstruction,
  • snag,
  • profundity,
  • field of inquiry,
  • disquiet,
  • hard life,
  • issue,
  • molestation,
  • downer,
  • having to,
  • expostulation,
  • serious,
  • paradox,
  • quarrel,
  • polemic,
  • condition,
  • disaccord,
  • haughty,
  • prevent,
  • dissent,
  • irritation,
  • MATTER IN DISPUTE,
  • hamper,
  • bottleneck,
  • painfulness,
  • doubt,
  • burthen,
  • depression,
  • misunderstanding,
  • bad,
  • impenetrableness,
  • baggage,
  • cross,
  • contention,
  • needfulness,
  • unpleasant,
  • Hell,
  • result,
  • detain,
  • pauperism,
  • stubbornness,
  • fatherless,
  • curtain,
  • Neediness,
  • out of gear,
  • drag,
  • headache,
  • epicurism,
  • fetter,
  • crunch,
  • warfare,
  • desideratum,
  • gain the ascendancy,
  • hinder,
  • critical,
  • paralyzed,
  • heavy,
  • ill wind,
  • poser,
  • necessity,
  • sensitivity,
  • discomfort,
  • to-do,
  • adverse circumstances,
  • strain,
  • bugaboo,
  • profoundness,
  • query,
  • ramification,
  • hangup,
  • vigor,
  • stricture,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • indigent,
  • unhappiness,
  • demands,
  • grim,
  • disagreement,
  • upshot,
  • avert,
  • hitch,
  • wrangle,
  • road block,
  • inhibition.

Antonyms for Difficulty:

• n.

  • argument
    agreement.
  • mental burden
    delight, cheerfulness, hopefulness, good fortune, joy, boon.
  • problem; situation requiring great effort
    blessing, organization, order, promotion, happiness, help, comfort, good health, harmony, tranquility, aid, success, pleasure, ease, advantage, solution, assistance, benefit, opening, peace, calmness, felicity, encouragement, satisfaction, favor, contentment, calm, health.
  • Other antonyms:
    assistance, help, break, opportunity, succor, acquiescence, benefit, willingness, accord, relief, obedience, aid, harmony, assent, acceptance, sanction, approval, agreement, advantage, compliance, unanimity, concord, simpleness, consensus, peace.

Homophones for Difficulty:

• dibasic salt, difficult.