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Synonyms for difficulty
noun problem; situation requiring great effort

predicament
complication
dilemma
hardship
hazard
snag
obstacle
struggle
frustration
pain
trouble
deadlock
crisis

adversity
distress
strait
hitch
obstruction
perplexity
quagmire
check
misfortune
paradox
emergency
awkwardness
fix

scrape
labor
tribulation
exigency
mess
muddle
crux
stew
knot
strain
quandary
impasse
barricade

hindrance
pickle
dead end
hot water
stumbling block
deep water
painfulness
strenuousness
arduousness
laboriousness

Antonyms for difficulties

advantage
assistance
favor
aid
encouragement
happiness
health
success
calm
tranquility

calmness
contentment
satisfaction
solution
ease
peace
blessing
help
good health
comfort

pleasure
benefit
opening
promotion
order
organization
felicity
harmony

Synonyms
noun mental burden

predicament
stress
anxiety
embarrassment
inconvenience
complication
setback
strife
pressure
struggle
frustration
misery
trouble

crisis
worry
distress
weight
grievance
puzzle
strait
strain
millstone
irritation
perplexity
harassment
depression

annoyance
emergency
scrape
charge
jam
ado
maze
to-do
exigency
mess
oppression
imbroglio
vicissitude

discouragement
ramification
care
pinch
bother
quandary
aggravation
responsibility
pickle
bafflement
hangup

Antonyms

calmness
contentment
happiness
advantage
boon
success
aid
assistance
health
cheerfulness

encouragement
delight
joy
calm
tranquility
satisfaction
good fortune
ease
peace
benefit

blessing
help
comfort
pleasure
solution
hopefulness
felicity
harmony

Synonyms
noun argument

misunderstanding
strife
hassle
trouble

controversy
dispute
squabble
beef

fight
altercation
quarrel
falling-out

bickering

Antonyms

calm
tranquility
calmness
contentment

satisfaction
agreement
harmony
peace

ease
felicity
pleasure

Concept Thesaurus for word difficulties
1. Conditional antagonism
Synonyms – noun

difficulty
hard work
Augean task
teaser
embarrassment
entanglement
ticklish card to play
net
crooked path
subtle point
poser
nut to crack
where the shoe pinches.
pass
brunt
rub
scrape
hot water
pretty kettle of fish
mess
stand
horns of a dilemma

hardness
uphill work
task of Sisyphus
rasper
deadlock
cross fire
knot
meshes
involvement.
knotty point
puzzle (riddle)
bone to pick
nonplus
pinch
critical situation
emergency
hobble
hornet’s nest
pickle
ado
deadlock
cul de sac

impracticability (impossibility)
hard task
Sisyphean labor
dead lift.
perplexity (uncertainty)
awkwardness
Gordian knot
maze
nice point
vexed question
paradox
crux
quandary
pretty pass
crisis
exigency
slough
sea of troubles
stew
false position.
dead set.
hitch

tough work
Herculean task
tough job
dilemma
intricacy
delicacy
dignus vindice nodus
coil (convolution)
delicate point
vexata quaestio
hard nut to crack
pons asinorum
strait
stress
trial
scramble.
quagmire
peck of troubles
imbroglio
set fast
fix
stumblng block (hindrance)

Synonyms – verbs

be difficult
put one out
try one
gravel
meet with difficulties
struggle with difficulties
be in difficulty
scud under bare poles.
come to the pinch
weave a tangled web
be put to one’s shifts
not know which way to turn (uncertain)
stick fast
render difficult
ravel

run one hard
put to one’s shifts
pose, perplex (uncertain)
bring to a deadlock
labor under difficulties
contend with difficulties
fish in troubled waters
have much ado with
bear the brunt.
walk among eggs.
flounder
perdre son Latin
come to a stand
enmesh
entangle

go against the grain
put to one’s wit’s end
bother
be impossible
get into difficulties
grapple with difficulties
buffet the waves
have a hard time of it
grope in the dark
get into a scrape
boggle
stick at
come to a deadlock
encumber
put a spoke in the wheel (hinder)

try one’s patience
go hard with one
nonplus
be in the way of (hinder)
plunge into difficulties
labor under a disadvantage
swim against the stream
come to the push
lose one’s way
bring a hornet’s nest about one’s ears
struggle
stick in the mud
hold the wolf by the ears.
embarrass
lead a pretty dance.

Synonyms – adjectives

difficult
troublesome
laborious
formidable
hard to deal with
not made with rose water.
intractable, stubborn (obstinate)
trying
knotty
labyrinthine (convoluted)
desperate (hopeless)
critical
entangled by difficulties

not easy
toilsome
onerous
sooner said than done
ill-conditioned
awkward
perverse
thorny
invious
intricate, complicated (tangled)
embarrassing, perplexing (uncertain)
beset with difficulties
encompassed with difficulties.

hard
irksome
arduous
more easily said than done.
crabbed
unwieldy
refractory
rugged
pathless
impracticable (impossible)
delicate
full of difficulties

tough
operose
Herculean
difficult to deal with
not to be handled with kid gloves
unmanageable
plaguy
knotted
trackless
not feasible
ticklish
surrounded by difficulties

Synonyms – phrases
“ay there’s the rub” [Hamlet]; hic labor hoc opus [Vergil]; things are come to a pretty pass, ab inconvenienti; ad astra per aspera; acun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a
Antonyms

facility

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Other adjectives related to difficulties

accomplished with difficulty
at a loss
at cross
between Scylla and Charybdis
critical
difficult to deal with
driven to one’s wit’s end
entangled by difficulties
formidable
hard
hard up
in a clever stick
in deep water
in the wrong box
irksome
more easily said than done
not made with rose
out of one’s depth
pinched
put to one’s shifts
refractory
sooner said than done
stubborn
surrounded by quicksands
ticklish
troublesome
unwieldy

aerumnous
at a nonplus
at the end of one’s tether
between two stools
delicate
driven from post to pillar
driven to the wall
farpotshket
full of difficulties
hard
herculean
in a fine pickle
in difficulty
intractable
knotted
nonplussed
not to be handled with kid gloves
pathless
plaguy
puzzled
rugged
sorely pressed
stuck fast
surrounded by shoals
toilsome
trying
up a tree

aground
at a standstill
awkward
complicated
desperate
driven into a corner
embarrassing
fashious
graveled
hard put to it
ill
in a fix
in hot water
intricate
laborious
not easy
onerous
perplexing
plexiform
quisquous
run hard
straitened
surrounded by breakers
thorny
tough
under a difficulty

arduous
at bay
beset with difficulties
crabbed
difficult
driven to extremity
encompassed with difficulties
feisty
hard
hard to deal with
impracticable
in a scrape
in the suds
invious
labyrinthine
not feasible
operose
perverse
put to it
reduced to straits
set fast
stranded
surrounded by difficulties
thrown out
trackless
unmanageable

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