difficulty
nounHow many syllables in difficulty?
There are 4 syllables in the word difficulty.How to pronounce difficulty:
Definition of difficulty:
- difficulty (noun):
- an objection or obstacle
- an effort that is inconvenient.
- the quality or state of being hard to do, deal with, or understand the quality or state of being difficult
Synonyms for difficulty:
adversity
asperity
can of worms
complication
difficultness
dilemma
discomfort
disputed point
effort
elbow grease
hardness
hardship
hassle
hazard
hindrance
hurdle
impediment
inconvenience
obstacle
pitfall
point at issue
predicament
problem
quandary
rigor
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Antonyms for difficulty:
abundance
adequacy
advantage
affluence
benefit
blessing
bliss
buoyancy
calmness
cheer
cheerfulness
comfort
comfortableness
contentedness
contentment
convenience
cosiness
coziness
delight
ease
easefulness
easiness
enjoyment
enough
entertainment
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Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- Cecelia
- roller-coaster
- ramoth-gilead
- posterior
- Cleopatra
- homogenize
- humidifies
- elongated
- dirty old man
- similitude
- glove compartment
- liquidation
- fugacious
- titillation
- telepathy
- Ellianna
- attribution
- accessary
- bureaucratic
- rotundity
- expectable
- circumciser
- indemnify
- forty-niners
- derisory
- cauliflower
- factorial
- reverberate
- phenomenon
- discomfiture
- equivoque
- rediscover
- manufactured
- corresponded
- vengefulness
- transubstantiate
- Isle of Ely
- loquacity
- duplicitous
- realism
- storyteller
- scolopendrid
- procreation
- can-opener
- senorita
- penurious
- dignitary
- carnality
- reiteration
- rigorism
- … more
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