predicament; difficult situation
sufferings; ordeals; agony; Passion (of Christ); crucifixion
peril; danger; hazard; distress
criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach
most difficult; next to impossible
troublesome (person, task, etc.); difficult; suffering; hardship; trouble
difficult problem; challenge
intractable (diseases); hard to cure; rebellious; insurgent; refractory
full of troubles, difficulties
safe (e.g. choice); secure; innocuous; acceptable; passable; satisfactory
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
barrier; obstacle; difficulty; hurdle; deadlock
(romantic) trouble with women; calamities brought upon a man by a woman
drowning; flood; shipwreck
without trouble; easily; readily
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
refugee; displaced person; person inconvenienced by (lack of something, etc.); person unable to satisfactorily (marry, shop, etc.); person who is stuck (in a place or situation)
fault; weakness; flaw; crux (of a matter); difficult point; point of contention
perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem
disapproval; reluctance; unwillingness
perilous pass (on a route or journey); rough spot
serious disease; intractable disease; difficult-to-recover-from illness
hard problem; person hard to please; hard nut to crack
one difficulty; one danger
economic difficulties; financial difficulties; fiscal difficulties
food shortage; food scarcity; difficulty of obtaining food
financial difficulties (for an organization or business)
difficulty of finding employment (due to a job shortage)
many obstacles; innumerable difficulties
shortage of capital; lack of funds; cash flow problem
uphill task; difficult undertaking (project)
difficult piece (of music)
difficult problem or question
all obstacles; all sorts of trouble
(calamity of) perishing by the sword; being wounded by the sword
the Seven Misfortunes; great number of faults or defects
highly selective university; university with high entry requirements; elite university
calamity; evil; misfortune
abstruseness; abstruse word
difficulty of getting into a college
trouble with men; calamities brought upon a woman by a man
indigestible; digestion-resistant; hard-to-digest
ball which is hard to hit or catch
sudden or unexpected disaster
being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place
deaf person; hearing-impaired person
difficult reading of a kanji
becoming more difficult (e.g. exam); increasing difficulty
labor shortage; labour shortage
(television or radio signal's) poor reception
difficult character; complicated kanji