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Definition of: difficulty

(difə·kul′tē, -kəl-) noun plural ·ties
1. The state or quality of being difficult or of presenting or constituting an obstacle to achievement or mastery.
2. An obstacle; hindrance; something difficult to effect or to understand.
3. Reluctance; objection.
4. A quarrel.
5. Usually plural Financial embarrassment; a strait; trouble: generally in the plural. See synonyms under IMPEDIMENT. [<L difficultas, -tatis <difficilis <dis- away, not + facilis easy <facere do, make]

Most often used phrases:

great difficulty
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difficulty level
financial difficulty
difficulty levels
difficulty in re
difficulty understanding
difficulty breathing
extreme difficulty
considerable difficulty
increasing difficulty
technical difficulty
difficulty settings
difficulty setting
difficulty making

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"difficulty" has the frequency of use of 0.0015% on city-data.com forum

"difficulty" has the frequency of use of 0.0021% on en.wikipedia.org.

Phrases starting with the letter: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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