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.

Hypernym for Difficulty:

• n.

  • act
    the devil, tsuris.
  • cognition
    handicap, check, trouble, pisser, facer, baulk, kink, wrinkle, problem, impediment, balk, booby trap, snorter, deterrent, hindrance, pitfall, killer, Hinderance.
  • state
    muddle, urinary hesitancy, strain, jam, rattrap, job, predicament, pickle, plight, hole, mess, mire, kettle of fish, situation, bitch, stress, rough sledding, wall, quandary, problem, fix, hard time, pinch.

Hyponym for Difficulty:

• n.

  • act
    elbow grease, exertion, travail, effort, sweat.
  • cognition
    cognitive factor.
  • state
    condition, status.