difficulty
an effort that is inconvenient
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,142 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 16,175 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- an effort that is inconvenient also: trouble I went to a lot of troublehe won without any trouble
- 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
- the quality of being difficult also: difficultness they agreed about the difficulty of the climb
difficulty in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Gloucester made his advance with great difficulty.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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So much did Maxence learn without difficulty.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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All this adds to the difficulty of interpretation.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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In the annotations the chief points of difficulty have been explained.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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Once you have that, there will be no further difficulty in the way of escape.’
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1