difficulty

Definition von difficulty im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal
We faced a difficulty.; The state of being difficult, or hard to do; {n} hardness, trouble, labor, distress, cavil; an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"; Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties; A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil; If you are in difficulty or in difficulties, you are having a lot of problems; Intermediate; a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties; a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result; "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent"; {i} something that is difficult; hardship, trouble; the level of resistance to successful performance of the agents of measurement on the variable; the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"; The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty; the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result; "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent" a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties; A difficulty is a problem. the difficulty of getting accurate information The country is facing great economic difficulties; (Dif) = How difficult it is to accomplish an action Compared with the Performance to determine the chance of outcomes; If you have difficulty doing something, you are not able to do it easily. Do you have difficulty getting up?; Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology; difficultness
difficulty level: One of the difficulty settings in a video game
difficulty level: The relative difficulty of completing a task or objective
difficulty levels: plural form of difficulty level
difficulties: a series of frustrations
brush aside a difficulty: remove an obstacle; repress or ignore a problem
brush away a difficulty: remove an obstacle; repress or ignore a problem
difficulties: plural form of difficulty
difficulties: collectively, a host of seemingly insurmountable problems
has difficulty: has a difficult time with, finds it very hard to
having difficulty with: having a hard time with, struggling with
in difficulty: during a distressful episode, during times of trouble, he has hardships
level of difficulty: degree of difficulty, grade of difficulty, rate indicating the difficulty of something
obviate a difficulty: remove an obstacle
overcome a difficulty: surmount a difficulty, get the better of a problem
surmount a difficulty: {f} get over a problem, overcome a problem
with difficulty: not easily, with a great effort
with great difficulty: difficultly, with great hardship

difficulty

Silbentrennung

dif·fi·cul·ty

Türkische aussprache

dîfıkılti

Synonyme

adversity, arduousness, awkwardness, barricade, check, complication, crisis, crux, dead end, deadlock, deep water, dilemma, distress, emergency, exigency

Antonyme

calm, ease, felicity, peace, tranquility, calmness, contentment, pleasure, satisfaction, harmony

Aussprache

/ˈdəfəkəltē/ /ˈdɪfəkəltiː/

Etymologie

() Middle English difficultee Old French difficulte Latin difficultas difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”) dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile and difficult.