English Synonym Finder

with difficulty

Definitions

In a manner that requires significant effort or struggle.

With a lack of ease; laboriously.

Examples

The elderly man climbed the steep stairs with difficulty.

She managed to open the rusted gate with difficulty after several attempts.

He spoke with difficulty because of his severe sore throat.

Synonyms

laboriously arduously painfully strenuously strugglingly hard toilsomely

Antonyms

easily effortlessly smoothly readily facilely lightly fluidly