difficulty
Obstacle to overcome
Difficulty is the quality of being hard to do, understand, or deal with: the difficulty of learning a new language, We underestimated the difficulty of the climb.
A difficulty is a problem or obstacle: financial difficulties, She's having difficulties at work.
The phrase with difficulty means laboriously or barely: He walked with difficulty after the accident.
To be in difficulty or in difficulties is to be in trouble.
Obstruction preventing passage
- hindranceBarrier to progress
- impedimentThing that obstructs progress
- hurdleBarrier to leap over
- roadblockObstruction across a road
bottleneck · stumbling block · blockade · snag · obstruction · setback · complication · holdup
Excessive stretching force
- effortApplied energy toward goals
- toilStrenuous, prolonged effort
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- grindCrush into particles
slog · struggle · rigor · strenuousness · arduousness · demanding · taxing · uphill
Severe difficulty or suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- tribulationState of great distress
- ordealDifficult, painful experience
- misfortuneAdverse circumstance or event
distress · privation · deprivation · trouble · affliction · woe · austerity · penury
Evaluative examination
- puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
- problemMatter requiring resolution
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
- brain-teaserChallenging mental puzzle
riddle · enigma · trial · gauntlet · crucible · stretch · tall order · tough nut
State of elaborate complexity
- nuanceSlight shade of difference
- sophisticationCultured elegance and complexity
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
- subtletyFine distinction, easily missed
convolution · elaborateness · entanglement · technicality · perplexity · labyrinthine · multifaceted · interconnection
barrier
Obstruction preventing passage
- hindranceBarrier to progress
- impedimentThing that obstructs progress
- hurdleBarrier to leap over
roadblock · bottleneck · stumbling block · blockade · snag · obstruction · setback · complication · holdup · deterrent
strain
Excessive stretching force
- effortApplied energy toward goals
- toilStrenuous, prolonged effort
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
grind · slog · struggle · rigor · strenuousness · arduousness · demanding · taxing · uphill · laboriousness
adversity
Severe difficulty or suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- tribulationState of great distress
- ordealDifficult, painful experience
misfortune · distress · privation · deprivation · trouble · affliction · woe · austerity · penury · indigence
test
Evaluative examination
- puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
- problemMatter requiring resolution
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
brain-teaser · riddle · enigma · trial · gauntlet · crucible · stretch · tall order · tough nut · proving ground
intricacy
State of elaborate complexity
- nuanceSlight shade of difference
- sophisticationCultured elegance and complexity
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
subtlety · convolution · elaborateness · entanglement · technicality · perplexity · labyrinthine · multifaceted · interconnection · depth
- game mechanicslevels, rules, cooldown, points, health points
- adjustable settingsbrightness, volume, contrast, sensitivity, speed
- adversitystruggle, hardship, challenge, obstacle, ordeal
- hardshiphardship, adversity, trouble, struggle, challenges
- problemsproblem, issue, complication, trouble, obstacle
- Troublesproblem, trouble, issue, setback, snag
difficultyease
Lack of strain
easiness · effortlessness · facility · simplicity · smoothness
difficultysimplicity
Lack of complexity
simpleness · straightforwardness · clarity · plainness · transparency
- technical difficultiesEquipment or system failures
- difficulty breathingImpaired respiration
- with difficultyIn a hard way
- technical difficultyEquipment malfunction disrupting proceedings
- difficulty levelsDegrees of challenge offered
- difficult pill to swallowUnpleasant truth requiring acceptance