difficulty vs killer

killer vs difficulty

difficulty and killer both are nouns.

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

As nouns, killer is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, killer 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
killer: a difficulty that is hard to deal with

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, kink, pisser, booby trap, pitfall, snorter, balk, 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)	killer (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a difficulty that is hard to deal with
	someone who causes the death of a person or animal
	the causal agent resulting in death

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