difficulty

/dɪfɪˌkʌlti/

意味: 困難、難しさ

例文: Aki had difficulty folding glitter napkins.
　　  アキがラメ付きナプキン折りに苦労。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: face difficulty(困難に直面する), experience difficulty(困難を経験する), overcome difficulty(困難を克服する)

定義: 何かをするのが難しいことや、問題があることを指します。困難や障害があるために、物事がスムーズに進まない状態を表します。

difficultyは約50,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: an effort that is inconvenient
Noun: a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result
Noun: a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one’s ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome
Noun: the quality of being difficult

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She faced difficulty completing the project on time.(彼女は期限内にプロジェクトを完成させるのに苦労した。)
The difficulty of the puzzle surprised everyone.(そのパズルの難しさは皆を驚かせた。)
He showed no difficulty in solving the problem.(彼は問題を解くのに全く困難を感じなかった。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: I went to a lot of trouble
Noun: he won without any trouble
Noun: had difficulty walking
Noun: finished the test only with great difficulty
Noun: serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent
Noun: grappling with financial difficulties
Noun: they agreed about the difficulty of the climb

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): difficultness, difficulty, trouble

Antonyms(反意語): ease

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): cognitive factor, condition, effort, quality

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ability, absolution, accuracy, air, amorality, anchorage, appearance, application, arability, asset, astigmatism, atmosphere, atonicity, attraction, automation, bad, brachycephaly, brutalization, celibacy, certainty, changeableness, changelessness, characteristic, circumstance, clearness, climate, combustibility, comfort, complexity, comprehensibility, condemnation, constructiveness, correctness, counterfactuality, credibility, curvature, danger, decline, deification, despair, destructiveness, determinant, difference, difficulty, directivity, discomfort, dishabille, disorderliness, distinction, diversification, diversity, divine guidance, divinity, divisibility, dolichocephaly, domesticity, dominance, dryness, ease, economic condition, elegance, emptiness, encapsulation, ennoblement, environmental condition, ethnicity, excellence, exercise, exoneration, expressiveness, extraordinariness, extremeness, eye condition, facilitation, factuality, fibrosity, fidelity, financial condition, finiteness, foreignness, friction, frizz, fruitfulness, fruition, fruitlessness, fullness, generality, good, guilt, hairlessness, hardness, health, holiness, homelessness, hopefulness, hospitalization, hot stuff, humaneness, humanness, humor, hyalinization, ideality, identification, illogicality, immateriality, immobility, immorality, immunity, impaction, impenetrability, impressiveness, impropriety, improvement, impurity, inability, inaccuracy, incomprehensibility, incorrectness, incredibility, inelegance, infidelity, infiniteness, inhumaneness, iniquity, innocence, insolubility, inutility, ionization, irradiation, irregularity, lactosuria, lawfulness, laxness, leakiness, least effort, light, logicality, lubrication, malady, materiality, mechanization, memorability, mobility, mode, morality, motivation, mummification, mutism, naivete, nakedness, nativeness, naturalness, nature, navigability, need, neediness, negativity, niche, noise conditions, nomination, normality, occidentalism, opacity, orderliness, ordinariness, orientalism, originality, overexertion, overkill, painfulness, parental quality, participation, particularity, pathos, penetrability, physical condition, piquancy, place, pleasantness, polarization, popularity, positivity, power, powerlessness, prepossession, preservation, probability, prognathism, protectiveness, protuberance, psychological state, publicity, pull, purity, quantifiability, regularity, regularization, reinstatement, relativity, repair, responsiveness, romanticism, rustication, rustiness, safety, salability, sameness, sanitary condition, satisfactoriness, saturation, scandalization, serration, silence, simplicity, situation, ski conditions, snootiness, soapiness, solubility, sophistication, soundness, spinnability, standardization, stigmatism, strain, struggle, stuff, stuffiness, subjectivism, submission, subservience, sufficiency, suitability, supererogation, susceptibility, tension, tilth, tone, trouble, ulteriority, ultimate, uncertainty, unholiness, unlawfulness, unnaturalness, unoriginality, unpleasantness, unpopularity, unresponsiveness, unsatisfactoriness, unsoundness, unsuitability, unsusceptibility, unwholesomeness, urbanity, urbanization, utility, vacuolization, virginity, virtu, waxiness, way, wetness, wholesomeness, woodiness, worth, worthlessness

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): asperity, bitch, burdensomeness, effortfulness, facer, fix, formidability, hard time, hardness, hindrance, killer, kink, mire, pinch, pisser, pitfall, predicament, problem, rattrap, situation, snorter, stress, subtlety, the devil, trouble, troublesomeness, tsuris, urinary hesitancy, wall, wrinkle

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: difficult, trouble

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ty

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, fear, negative, sadness