Difference between Arduous and Difficult

ARDUOUS vs DIFFICULT: ADJECTIVE

Demanding great effort or labor; difficult.
Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous.
Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
Taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance
Difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill
Burning; ardent
Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
This sense) Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
Characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
Requiring much effort and trouble
Requiring considerable effort or skill; not easy to do or accomplish.
Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying.
Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain.
Not easy to please, satisfy, or manage.
Not easy to persuade or convince; stubborn.
Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn.
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort
Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome; eg. said of a person, a horse, etc.
Hard to control

Hence—3. Energetic; laborious: said of persons or actions: as, an arduous student;
Attended with great labor, like the ascent of acclivities; difficult.
Steep, and therefore difficult of ascent; hard to climb.
Difficult to accomplish
Testing powers of endurance
Taxing to the utmost
Especially physical effort
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion

To make difficult; impede.
To perplex; embarrass.
Not easy; requiring or dependent on effort; hard; troublesome; arduous.
Hard to do, perform, or overcome; attended with labor, pains, or opposition; laborious: as, a difficult undertaking.
Hard to please or satisfy; not compliant; unaccommodating; rigid; austere: as, a person of difficult temper.
Hard to persuade or induce; stubborn in yielding; obstinate as to opinion: as, he was difficult to convince.
Hard to understand or solve; perplexing; puzzling: as, a difficult passage in an author; a difficult question or problem.
Synonyms Difficult, Hard, Arduous (see arduous), laborious, toilsome; obscure, knotty.
Not easy

Exhausting, Tortuous, Labourious, Straining, Heavy, Effortful, Punishing, Hard, Backbreaking, Gruelling, Toilsome, Difficult, Strenuous, Laborious, Grueling

Thorny, Trying, Unenviable, Delicate, Awkward, Rocky, Rough, Troublesome, Problematical, Arduous, Hard, Problematic, Challenging, Tough, Tricky

Exhausting, Tortuous, Labourious, Straining, Heavy, Effortful, Punishing, Hard, Backbreaking, Gruelling, Toilsome, Difficult, Strenuous, Laborious, Grueling

Thorny, Trying, Unenviable, Delicate, Awkward, Rocky, Rough, Troublesome, Problematical, Arduous, Hard, Problematic, Challenging, Tough, Tricky

Arduous negotiations: Interview with the Bin Laden employee.
Minvan shopping was a long an arduous process.
The municipalitiesthatmade theeffortto participate indicatedthatcompliancewasmore arduous thanit wasworth.
Declaration of Independence and its arduous journey myself.
It was quite a long and arduous journey.
It will be a long and arduous process.
Some approved coursepackages may be arduous in nature.
SAVE TIMEData collection and analysis can be arduous.
This phase was often long, arduous, and taxing.
The extradition process is notoriously arduous in France.

It certainly can make for a difficult marriage.
Find it difficult to get around your bathroom?
Metaphors are more difficult to teach than similes.
Times have been so difficult in recent months.
The use of cryptography is complex and difficult.
Slow and difficult process to retrieve boarding pass.
Calamity player, pure summoner would be insanely difficult.
You are saying it is more difficult, music is more difficult?
Some dailies are more difficult than others, a lot more difficult.
Advancing racial equity is already difficult, but then you add the scope and it becomes more difficult.

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