Difficulty and Incident

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".

How words are described

particular particular difficulty particular incident
similar similar difficulty similar incident
certain certain difficulty certain incident
current current difficulty current incident
Other adjectives: original, initial, notorious, actual, real, massive, serious, little, infamous, aforementioned.

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.
  • Video Game / Mighty Switch Force! Nintendo Hard: In Mighty Switch Force, starting around the fourteenth incident, the difficulty goes Up to Eleven.
  • Understatement During a foreign trip in 1958, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan referred to an incident as a "little local difficulty".
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