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The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
Shana Alexander

Meaning of "difficulty" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DIFFICULTY

From Latin difficultās, from difficilis difficult, from dis- not + facilis easy, facile.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DIFFICULTY

difficulty  [ˈdɪfɪkəltɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIFFICULTY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Difficulty is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIFFICULTY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of difficulty in the English dictionary

The first definition of difficulty in the dictionary is the state or quality of being difficult. Other definition of difficulty is a task, problem, etc, that is hard to deal with. Difficulty is also a troublesome or embarrassing situation, esp a financial one.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIFFICULTY


admiralty
ˈædmərəltɪ
casualty
ˈkæʒjʊəltɪ
commonalty
ˈkɒmənəltɪ
cruelty
ˈkruːəltɪ
disloyalty
dɪsˈlɔɪəltɪ
faculty
ˈfækəltɪ
fealty
ˈfiːəltɪ
interfaculty
ˌɪntəˈfækəltɪ
loyalty
ˈlɔɪəltɪ
mayoralty
ˈmɛərəltɪ
nonfaculty
ˌnɒnˈfækəltɪ
novelty
ˈnɒvəltɪ
penalty
ˈpɛnəltɪ
personalty
ˈpɜːsənəltɪ
realty
ˈrɪəltɪ
royalty
ˈrɔɪəltɪ
specialty
ˈspɛʃəltɪ
subtlety
ˈsʌtəltɪ
vice-admiralty
ˌvaɪsˈædmərəltɪ
viceroyalty
ˌvaɪsˈrɔɪəltɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIFFICULTY

differentially
differentiate
differentiation
differentiator
differently
differentness
difficile
difficult
difficulties
difficultly
diffidence
diffident
diffidently
diffluent
difform
difformity
diffract
diffraction
diffraction grating
diffraction pattern

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIFFICULTY

brand loyalty
culty
Dean of Faculty
death penalty
degree of difficulty
faulty
frailty
guilty
kelty
Law Faculty
malty
melty
plead guilty
salty
speech difficulty
the death penalty
unfaulty
university faculty
vaulty
Welty

Synonyms and antonyms of difficulty in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DIFFICULTY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «difficulty» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of difficulty

Translation of «difficulty» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIFFICULTY

Find out the translation of difficulty to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of difficulty from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «difficulty» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

困难
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dificultad
570 millions of speakers

English

difficulty
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कठिनाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صُعُوبَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сложность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dificuldade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অসুবিধা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

difficulté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesukaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schwierigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

困難
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

어려움
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Angel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự khó khăn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிரமம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अडचण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zorluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

difficoltà
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

trudność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

труднощі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dificultate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δυσκολία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

moeilik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

svårighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vanskelighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of difficulty

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIFFICULTY»

The term «difficulty» is very widely used and occupies the 7.818 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIFFICULTY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «difficulty» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «difficulty» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about difficulty

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10 QUOTES WITH «DIFFICULTY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word difficulty.
1
F. Murray Abraham
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
2
Shana Alexander
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
3
Timothy Garton Ash
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.
4
Gregory Bateson
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
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Jean Baudrillard
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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Dirk Benedict
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
7
William Bennett
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
8
Paul Bettany
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.
9
Jose Carreras
Even out of severe difficulty, some positive things come.
10
Benjamin Carson
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIFFICULTY»

Discover the use of difficulty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to difficulty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
Written with the flair and seemingly effortless erudition that have made Gurcharan Das a bestselling author around the world--and enlivened by Das's forthright discussion of his own personal search for a more meaningful life--The Difficulty ...
Gurcharan Das, 2010
2
The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy
This volume presents Scanlon's classic essays in political philosophy written between 1969 and 1999.
T. M. Scanlon, 2003
3
Children in Difficulty: A Guide to Understanding and Helping
This new edition has been fully updated to include new material on conditions such as dyspraxia and ADHD, and provides the reader with a variety of sources for further reading and information.
Julian Elliott, Maurice Place, 2004
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Articulating with Difficulty: Research Voices in Inclusive ...
This is an important book that needs to be read by anyone doing research in this area' - "British Educational Research Journal " Articulating with Difficulty is an excellent collection and comes highly recommended.
Peter Clough Len Barton, Professor Peter Clough, Professor Len Barton, 1998
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Relating Difficulty: The Processes of Constructing and ...
Relating Difficulty offers insight into the nature of difficulty in relationships across a broad range of human experience.
D. Charles Kirkpatrick, Steven Duck, Megan K. Foley, 2013
6
Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval
This book discusses the reasons that cause search engines to fail for some of the queries, and then reviews recent approaches for estimating query difficulty in the IR field.
David Carmel, Elad Yom-Tov, 2010
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A Curriculum of Difficulty: Narrative Research in Education ...
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Leah C. Fowler, 2006
8
Difficulty: Poems
Poems explore a variety of themes including love, jealousy, city life, and the world of nature
William Logan, 1985
9
Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art
Examining the relationship between emotional intensity and difficulty in works of avant-garde art, Jennifer Doyle seeks to develop a critical language for understanding affectively charged contemporary art.
Jennifer Doyle, 2013
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Hume's Difficulty: Time and Identity in the Treatise
The book will be useful to those interested in the metaphysics of identity and time, and the epistemology of metaphysics, and will be indispensable to Hume scholars, who have lacked an in-depth treatment of these crucial and intricate ...
Donald L.M. Baxter, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIFFICULTY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term difficulty is used in the context of the following news items.
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Putin: Russia and China can overcome any difficulty together - US …
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shake hands prior their talks during the summit in Ufa, Russia, ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
2
New York Stock Exchange Suspends Trading, Cites Technical …
New York Stock Exchange Suspends Trading, Cites Technical Difficulty. All trading has halted on the New York Stock Exchange, and the NYSE ... «Gizmodo, Jul 15»
3
Cameron Gosling dies after getting into difficulty swimming in the …
A 14-year-old boy died when he got into difficulty while swimming in the River Wear. Cameron Gosling's body was recovered from the river in ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Woman who claims she has difficulty walking following hysterectomy …
A WOMAN who claimed she has difficulty walking following surgery nearly 10 years ago has lost her High Court action for damages. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
5
Does your child have difficulty paying attention? - DurhamRegion.com
Children with CAPD have perfect hearing, but they have difficulty ... When a child can hear perfectly, but has difficulty remaining focused, the ... «durhamregion.com, Jul 15»
6
Bangor City will continue to makes signings despite financial difficulty
Bangor City chairman Dilwyn Jones predicts a tough campaign ahead for the club financially due to the absence of European football and the ... «Daily Post North Wales, Jul 15»
7
Kazkommertsbank to have difficulty in problem asset recovery …
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services kept on CreditWatch with negative implications its 'B' long-term issuer credit rating on Kazakhstan-based ... «Trend News Agency, Jul 15»
8
Young people in difficulty on Mourne Mountains
A rescue operation has been launched to help a group of young people who have got into difficulty on the Mourne Mountains due to poor ... «U.TV, Jul 15»
9
Transgender health care a maze of difficulty
DALLAS – After nearly 50 years living as a man, Leslie McMurray was reborn — but then lost nearly everything: her home, her marriage of 33 ... «Daily Record, Jul 15»
10
Gamer takes Dark Souls to a new difficulty in challenge run
There are people out there who are masochists in some respects and LobosJR is one of those people. He has done countless Dark Souls ... «GameZone, Jul 15»

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