Thesaurus
difficulty
Synonyms and Antonyms of difficulty
- the many difficulties that he encountered on the road from poor orphan to head of a major corporation
discomfort, inconvenience, nuisance
affliction, trial, tribulation
knock, misfortune, mishap, tragedy
bar, catch, check, clog, crimp, embarrassment, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, pons asinorum, rub, shackle, snag, stop, trammel
- there was a minor difficulty when we realized that the store had already closed
- the only difficulty I have with the dress is its color—does it come in anything besides purple?
compunction, doubt, misgiving, qualm, scruple
cavil, niggle [chiefly British], quibble
argument, conflict, debate, dispute, dissent, hassle, quarrel, squabble, static
defiance, disobedience, rebellion
distrust, distrustfulness, dubiety, dubitation [archaic], incertitude, indetermination, misdoubt, mistrust, mistrustfulness, reservation, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty
- the theologian's ongoing difficulties with the Vatican
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