difficulty vs kettle of fish

kettle of fish vs difficulty

difficulty and kettle of fish both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficulty	Yes	No	No	No
kettle of fish	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, kettle of fish is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, kettle of fish 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
kettle of fish: informal terms for a difficult situation

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, balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment, wrinkle, bitch, plight, predicament, quandary, rattrap, pinch, fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	kettle of fish (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	informal terms for a difficult situation
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result

Difference between difficulty and kettle of fish

Words related to "kettle of fish"

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