Difficulty
Difficulty noun - Something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal.
Incident and difficulty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Incident" instead a noun "Difficulty".
Nearby Word: difficult
Incident
Incident noun - Something that happens.
Difficulty and incident are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Difficulty" instead a noun "Incident".
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Both words in one sentence
- He does not remember the incident, and it is not until he sees her face that he recalls who she is, albeit with some difficulty.
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Nintendo Hard: In Mighty Switch Force, starting around the fourteenth incident, the difficulty goes Up to Eleven.
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During a foreign trip in 1958, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan referred to an incident as a "little local difficulty".
Source: Understatement
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Incident and Difficulty. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficulty/incident
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