Definition of difficulty
- n. - 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.
- n. - Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to
understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires
skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard
enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a
science; difficulties in theology.
- n. - A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an
objection; a cavil.
- n. - Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs;
-- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.