English-Thai Dictionary

difficulty

N ความยากลำบาก  ความยุ่งยาก  ความเดือดร้อน  อุปสรรค  annoyance disavantage problem trouble kwam-yeak-lam-bak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIFFICULTY

n.[L.] 1. Hardness to be done or accomplished; the state of any thing which renders its performance laborious or perplexing; opposed to easiness or facility; as the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of labor and difficulty.
2. That which is hard to be performed or surmounted. We often mistake difficulties for impossibilities. To overcome difficulties is an evidence of a great mind.
3. Perplexity; embarrassment of affairs; trouble; whatever renders progress or execution of designs laborious. We lie under many difficulties, by reason of bad markets, or a low state of trade.
4. Objection; obstacle to belief; that which cannot be easily understood, explained or believed, Men often raise difficulties concerning miracles and mysteries in religion, which candid research will remove.
5. In a popular sense, bodily complaints; indisposition.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DIFFICULTY

Dif "fi *cul *ty, n.; pl. Difficulties. Etym: [L. difficultas, fr. difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. See Facile. ]

 

1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not being able to promote them [the interests of life ] on account of the difficulty of the region. James Byrne.

 

2. Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology. They lie under some difficulties by reason of the emperor's displeasure. Addison.

 

3. A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil. Measures for terminating all local difficulties. Bancroft.

 

4. Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties. In days of difficulty and pressure. Tennyson.

 

Syn. -- Impediment; obstacle; obstruction; embarrassment; perplexity; exigency; distress; trouble; trial; objection; cavil. See Impediment.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

difficulty

dif fi cul ty |ˈdifikəltē ˈdɪfəkəlti | ▶noun ( pl. difficulties ) the state or condition of being difficult: Guy had no difficulty in making friends | she walks with difficulty . • a thing that is hard to accomplish, deal with, or understand: there is a practical difficulty | a club with financial difficulties. • (often difficulties ) a situation that is difficult or dangerous: they went for a swim but got into difficulties. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the senses ‘requiring effort or skill ’ and ‘something difficult ’): from Latin difficultas, from dis- (expressing reversal ) + facultas ‘ability, opportunity. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

difficulty

dif |fi ¦culty |ˈdɪfɪk (ə )lti | ▶noun ( pl. difficulties ) [ mass noun ] the state or condition of being difficult: Guy had no difficulty in making friends | I managed with difficulty to struggle upright. • [ count noun ] a thing that is hard to accomplish, deal with, or understand: there is a practical difficulty | a club with financial difficulties. • (difficulties ) a situation that is difficult or dangerous: they went for a swim but got into difficulties. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the senses ‘requiring effort or skill ’ and ‘something difficult ’): from Latin difficultas, from dis- (expressing reversal ) + facultas ‘ability, opportunity ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

difficulty

difficulty noun 1 the difficulty of balancing motherhood with a career: strain, trouble, problems, toil, struggle, laboriousness, arduousness; informal hassle, stress. ANTONYMS ease. 2 the project has met with one difficulty after another: problem, complication, snag, hitch, pitfall, handicap, impediment, hindrance, obstacle, hurdle, stumbling block, obstruction, barrier; informal fly in the ointment, headache; growing pains. 3 (difficulties ) Charles got into difficulties: trouble, predicament, plight, hard times, dire straits; quandary, dilemma; informal deep water, a fix, a jam, a spot, a scrape, a stew, a hole, a pickle.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

difficulty

difficulty noun 1 her note had been penned with obvious difficulty: strain, struggling, awkwardness, trouble, toil, labour, laboriousness, strenuousness, arduousness; pains, problems, trials and tribulations; informal hassle, stress; literary dolour, travails. ANTONYMS ease. 2 the questions are arranged in order of difficulty: complexity, complicatedness, intricacy, perplexity, knottiness, awkwardness; difficultness, trickiness, hardness; obscurity, abstruseness. ANTONYMS simplicity. 3 the cost of the journey was not an insurmountable difficulty: problem, complication, disadvantage, snag, hitch, drawback, pitfall, handicap, impediment, hindrance, obstacle, hurdle, stumbling block, obstruction, barrier; informal fly in the ointment, prob, headache, hiccup, facer; Brit. informal spanner in the works; N. Amer. informal monkey wrench in the works; dated cumber; literary trammel. 4 they felt unable to ask for help when they were in difficulty: trouble, distress, crisis, hardship; adversity, extremity, need; hard times, dire straits; predicament, quandary, dilemma, plight; informal hot water, deep water, a fix, a jam, a spot, a scrape, a stew, a hole, a pickle.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

difficulty

dif fi cul ty /dɪ́fɪk (ə )lti, -kʌlti / (! 強勢は第1音節 ) 〖dif (打ち消し )ficulty (容易 )〗(形 )difficult 名詞 複 -ties /-z /1 U «…(すること )における /…についての » 難しさ, 困難 , 苦難, 苦労 «in (do ing )/with , about » ; (テストなどの )難易度 ▸ I had (great ) [had little ] difficulty (｟かたく ｠in ) losing weight .体重を減らすのに (大変 )苦労した [ほとんど苦労しなかった ](╳… difficulty to lose weightとしない )▸ I had the most difficulty with math .数学がいちばん苦手だった ▸ I wrote it down with some [a little ] difficulty .私は少しばかり苦労してそれを書き取った ▸ He has done the work without (any ) difficulty [(too ) much difficulty ].彼は何の [あまり ]苦労もなくその仕事をやってのけた ▸ talk about the difficulty of doing research 研究活動の難しさについて語る 2 C U «…(すること )における /…についての » やっかいな [困った ]事柄 , 難事, 障害 (!many, a fewなどによる修飾は可能だが, 通例one, twoなど具体的数詞と共に用いない ) ; 〖通例 -ties 〗困った状態 [立場 ] «in (do ing )/with , about » ▸ face a difficulty 難事に直面する ▸ get [run ] into difficulties 困難な状態に陥る (!時にdifficultiesの代わりにdifficultyが用いられる ) ▸ be in difficulty [｟主に英 ｠difficulties ]危機に瀕 （ひん ）している ▸ We're having [experiencing ] financial [technical ] difficulties .我々は経済 [技術 ]的障害を抱えている ▸ a child with learning [breathing, hearing, visual ] difficulties 学習 [呼吸, 聴覚, 視覚 ]障害のある子供 ▸ There is a difficulty here .ここにひとつ問題がある ▸ overcome many difficulties 多くの障害を克服する 3 U C いざこざ, もめごと ; 争い, 口論 .