difficulty vs balk

balk vs difficulty

difficulty and balk both are nouns.

difficulty is not a verb while balk is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficulty	Yes	No	No	No
balk	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, balk is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, balk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than difficulty:

difficulty: the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
balk: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness, niceness, subtlety, inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment, problem, trouble, facer, killer, kink, pisser, booby trap, pitfall, snorter, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment, wrinkle, bitch, plight, predicament, quandary, rattrap, pinch, fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	balk (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
	something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
	the area on a billiard table behind the balkline

difficulty (verb)	balk (verb)
	refuse to comply

Difference between difficulty and balk

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.