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1. difficulty
noun. ['ˈdɪfəkəlti, ˈdɪfɪˌkəlti'] an effort that is inconvenient.
Antonyms
Etymology
- difficultee (Middle English (1100-1500))
- difficulté (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
Rhymes with Difficulty
- admiralty
- casualty
- casualty
- casualty
- coltie
- cruelty
- cruelty
- difficulty
- disloyalty
- esselte
- faculty
- faulty
- fealty
- fealty
- felty
- frailty
- glotfelty
- hilty
- kampschulte
- kelty
Sentences with difficulty
1. Noun, singular or mass
Their place also depends on the difficulty of the specialty, and there are many subgroups.
Quotes about difficulty
1. Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
- John Updike
2. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston S. Churchill
3. Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
- John Updike
2. difficulty
noun. ['ˈdɪfəkəlti, ˈdɪfɪˌkəlti'] a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome.
Synonyms
Etymology
- difficultee (Middle English (1100-1500))
- difficulté (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
3. difficulty
noun. ['ˈdɪfəkəlti, ˈdɪfɪˌkəlti'] a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- difficultee (Middle English (1100-1500))
- difficulté (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
4. difficulty
noun. ['ˈdɪfəkəlti, ˈdɪfɪˌkəlti'] the quality of being difficult.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- difficultee (Middle English (1100-1500))
- difficulté (Old French (842-ca. 1400))