with great difficulty
Just barely succeeding
With great difficulty describes doing something that requires enormous effort, struggle, or hardship to accomplish.
The phrase emphasizes how challenging the task was: She climbed the stairs with great difficulty after her knee surgery.
It often implies the action was barely possible or came close to failing entirely.
- adverseHarmful or opposed
- arduousDemanding strenuous effort
- unfavorableNot in your benefit
- challengingHard to accomplish
- strenuousRequiring intense exertion
perplexing · laborious · heavy lifting · backbreaking · blood sweat and tears · grueling · obstructive · hardly · exhausting · overwhelming · exasperating · uphill · wearisome · no easy feat · painstakingly · tooth and nail · burdensome · pulling teeth
with great difficultyeffortlessly
Without visible labor
easily · with ease · smoothly · readily · without effort
with great difficultyseamlessly
Without noticeable transitions
fluidly · unimpeded · frictionlessly · unhindered · straightforwardly
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