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noun
problem; situation requiring great effort
Synonyms: adversity, arduousness, awkwardness, barricade, check, complication, crisis, crux, dead end, deadlock, deep water, dilemma, distress, emergency, exigency, fix, frustration, hardship, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hot water, impasse, knot, labor, laboriousness, mess, misfortune, muddle, obstacle, obstruction, pain, painfulness, paradox, perplexity, pickle, predicament, quagmire, quandary, scrape, snag, stew, strain, strait, strenuousness, struggle, stumbling block, tribulation, trouble
Antonyms: calm, ease, felicity, peace, tranquility
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noun
mental burden
Synonyms: ado, aggravation, annoyance, anxiety, bafflement, bother, care, charge, complication, crisis, depression, discouragement, distress, embarrassment, emergency, exigency, frustration, grievance, hangup, harassment, imbroglio, inconvenience, irritation, jam, maze, mess, millstone, misery, oppression, perplexity, pickle, pinch, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, ramification, responsibility, scrape, setback, strain, strait, stress, strife, struggle, to-do, trouble, vicissitude, weight, worry
Antonyms: calmness, contentment, peace, pleasure, satisfaction
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noun
argument
Synonyms: altercation, beef, bickering, controversy, dispute, falling-out, fight, hassle, misunderstanding, quarrel, squabble, strife, trouble
Antonyms: harmony, peace