difficulties
Things blocking progress
Difficulties are problems, obstacles, or challenges that make something hard to accomplish.
The word often appears where a single difficulty would sound too slight: financial difficulties, technical difficulties, breathing difficulties.
Someone in difficulties faces serious trouble.
They ran into difficulties with the permit process.
Severe difficulty or suffering
- trialsFormal legal proceedings
- tribulationsCauses of great distress
- ordealsSeverely difficult experiences
- strugglesDifficult prolonged efforts
challenges · burdens · troubles · misfortunes · suffering · hardships · strife · woes
Things blocking access
- hindrancesThings that obstruct progress
- impedimentsThings that obstruct progress
- roadblocksObstructions blocking forward movement
- hurdlesFrames jumped in races
setbacks · stumbling blocks · bottlenecks · blockades · snags · constraints · limitations · handicaps
Persistent apprehensive distress
- tensionStretched or strained state
- pressureForce upon contact
- strainExcessive stretching force
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
overwhelm · frustration · worry · fatigue · burnout · exhaustion · unease · apprehension
State of elaborate complexity
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
- nuanceSlight shade of difference
- convolutionTwisting or mathematical integration
- entanglementState of being intertwined
perplexity · knottiness · subtlety · ambiguity · opacity · technicality · abstruseness · elaborateness
Capacity to recover quickly
- tenacityPersistent grip or resolve
- fortitudeEnduring courage under pain
- gritDetermination or abrasive particles
- determinationFirmness of purpose
persistence · steadfastness · endurance · perseverance · resolve · willpower · patience · toughness
adversity
Severe difficulty or suffering
- trialsFormal legal proceedings
- tribulationsCauses of great distress
- ordealsSeverely difficult experiences
struggles · challenges · burdens · troubles · misfortunes · suffering · hardships · strife · woes · afflictions
barriers
Things blocking access
- hindrancesThings that obstruct progress
- impedimentsThings that obstruct progress
- roadblocksObstructions blocking forward movement
hurdles · setbacks · stumbling blocks · bottlenecks · blockades · snags · constraints · limitations · handicaps · encumbrances
anxiety
Persistent apprehensive distress
distress · overwhelm · frustration · worry · fatigue · burnout · exhaustion · unease · apprehension · anguish
intricacy
State of elaborate complexity
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
- nuanceSlight shade of difference
- convolutionTwisting or mathematical integration
entanglement · perplexity · knottiness · subtlety · ambiguity · opacity · technicality · abstruseness · elaborateness · obscurity
resilience
Capacity to recover quickly
- tenacityPersistent grip or resolve
- fortitudeEnduring courage under pain
- gritDetermination or abrasive particles
determination · persistence · steadfastness · endurance · perseverance · resolve · willpower · patience · toughness · mettle
- hardshipshardship, adversity, struggle, misfortune, ordeal
difficultiesease
Lack of strain
simplicities · easiness · simplicity · smooth sailing · effortlessness
difficultiesadvantages
Favorable factors or conditions
benefits · perks · blessings · privileges · boons
difficultiesresolutions
Formal decisions or pledges
solutions · answers · fixes · remedies · breakthroughs
- technical difficultiesEquipment or system failures
- learning difficultiesImpairments affecting knowledge acquisition
- reading difficultiesImpaired text comprehension
- speech difficultiesImpaired verbal communication
- feeding difficultiesImpaired ability to eat