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difficulty vs pitfall

pitfall vs difficulty

difficulty and pitfall both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
difficulty Yes No No No
pitfall Yes No No No
As nouns, pitfall is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, pitfall 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
  • pitfall: an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
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, 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) pitfall (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient a trap in the form of a concealed hole
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
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