Antonym: ease, simplicity. Similar words: difficult, multicultural, faculty, diffident, diffidence, diffidently, agriculture, horticulture. Meaning: ['dɪfɪkʌltɪ /kltɪ] 
n. 1. an effort that is inconvenient 2. a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result 3. a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome 4. the quality of being difficult.
n. 1. an effort that is inconvenient 2. a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result 3. a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome 4. the quality of being difficult. 
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1) The first step is the only difficulty. 
2) The friend is known in the time of difficulty.
3) He mustered up enough courage to attack the difficulty.
4) He found the place without difficulty.
5) Bad planning will lead to difficulty later.
6) This project involves much difficulty.
7) The bank is in difficulty / difficulties.
8) He finally solved the difficulty of transportation.
9) The old lady climbed up the stairs with difficulty.
10) The old woman had some difficulty straightening herself up.
11) They had great difficulty in finding a replacement.
12) He had great difficulty in English grammar.
13) These things can be arranged with difficulty.
14) He could bluff his way through any difficulty.
15) The detective-constable picked out the words with difficulty.
16) We're having difficulty recruiting enough qualified staff.
17) The patient was perceived to have difficulty in breathing.
18) She had difficulty learning English pronunciation.
19) He was pushing a handtruck with difficulty.
20) She has difficulty breathing.
21) Women who do not ovulate regularly have difficulty in becoming pregnant.
22) A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
23) The police had difficulty in restraining the crowd from rushing on to the pitch.
24) We had enormous difficulty in getting hold of the right equipment.
25) There is no insurmountable difficulty before a brave man ; it is in difficult circumstances that a hero distinguishes himself.
26) Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
27) As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it(sentencedict.com),[http://sentencedict.com/difficulty.html] so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it.
28) The tests in this book are arranged in order of difficulty.
29) The old lady can mount the stairs only with difficulty.
30) None of us should ever underestimate the degree of difficulty women face in career advancement.
More similar words: difficult, multicultural, faculty, diffident, diffidence, diffidently, agriculture, horticulture, agricultural, diffuse, differ, faulty, diffract, different, differ from, difference, indifferent, beg to differ, diffraction, sniffing, indifference, agree to differ, differentiate, edifice, reticule, ridicule, office, make a difference, differentiation, cult.