Difficultlyadverb
(archaic) With difficulty; not easily.
Difficultlyadverb
With difficulty.
Difficultynoun
The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
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An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
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Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning
Difficultynoun
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.
Difficultynoun
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.
Difficultynoun
A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
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Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; - usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
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an effort that is inconvenient;
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a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result;
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a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome;
Difficultynoun
the quality of being difficult;