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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211) Mankind has always struggled forward no matter what difficulty lies in its way.
212) The police had some difficulty in matching up the statements taken from the two witnesses.
213) I have to admit that I underrated the difficulty of the task.
214) They had difficulty in persuading the two sides to sit down together.
215) Although the jewels were locked in a strongbox, the thieves stole them without any difficulty.
216) Nobody will believe what difficulty we have had/believe how difficult it has been for us.
217) This releases the teacher to work with individuals who are having extreme difficulty.
218) I had little difficulty in persuading the others to come.
219) The data exists all right - the difficulty is in gaining access to it.
220) He was going red in the face and breathing with difficulty.
221) The difficulty is to get enough good copy to fill the magazine.
222) You must get home to John where the difficulty lies.
223) I had difficulty getting any details. He wasn't very forthcoming.
224) They placed the child in an oxygen tent when he had difficulty in breathing.
225) People who retire on fixed incomes have the greatest difficulty with rising prices.
226) You must bring home to Tony where the difficulty lies.
227) Scott leapt to the rescue when he spotted the youngster in difficulty.
228) Difficulty shows what men are. Epictetus 
229) In the mist of difficulty lies opportunity. Oprah Winfrey
230) The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. Alexandre Dumas
231) We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time,(sentencedict.com)[www.Sentencedict.com] we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. Alexandre Dumas
232) The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
233) Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. Rene Descartes
234) We had the greatest difficulty imaginable.
235) The difficulty in the Plate Recognition is skew emendation.
236) You mustn't flinch from a difficulty.
237) Cultural dissimilarity brings difficulty to language learning.
238) Disrobe is easier, and wear dress difficulty very big.
239) She always had difficulty in figuring things out.
240) Shady financiers had no difficulty in finding gullible customers.
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