Difference between Difficult and Baffling

DIFFICULT vs BAFFLING: NOUN

An arrangement or system of partitions, plates, or rings whereby a tendency to motion in an undesired direction is prevented. See baffle-plate, baffle-ring.

Not easy to please, satisfy, or manage.
Not easy to persuade or convince; stubborn.
Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain.
Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying.
Requiring considerable effort or skill; not easy to do or accomplish.
Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
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
Requiring much effort and trouble

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

Frustrating; disconcerting; confusing; perplexing: as, a baffling wind, that is, one which frequently shifts from one point to another.
Making great mental demands
Hard to comprehend or solve or believe

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

Unnerving, Confusing, Troubling, Confounding, Disconcerting, Incomprehensible, Bewildering, Inexplicable, Perplexing, Puzzling, Hard, Knotty, Difficult, Problematical, Problematic

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

Unnerving, Confusing, Troubling, Confounding, Disconcerting, Incomprehensible, Bewildering, Inexplicable, Perplexing, Puzzling, Hard, Knotty, Difficult, Problematical, Problematic

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.