difficulty
pronunciation
How to pronounce difficulty in British English:
UK [ˈdɪfɪkəlti]
How to pronounce difficulty in American English:
US [ˈdɪfɪkəlti]
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- Noun:
- an effort that is inconvenient
- a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result
- a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome
- the quality of being difficult
Word Origin
- difficulty (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultatem (nominative difficultas) "difficulty, distress, poverty," from difficilis "hard," from dis- "not, away from" (see dis-) + facilis "easy" (see facile).
Antonym
Example
- 1. Another difficulty is managing a global workforce .
- 2. How is the difficulty level for each word determined ?
- 3. The difficulty with pylons is that they go everywhere .
- 4. For pakistan , the difficulty went beyond civilian casualties .
- 5. Yet the difficulty is not a lack of general liquidity .