Difference between Difficult and Intricate

DIFFICULT vs INTRICATE: ADJECTIVE

Not easy to persuade or convince; stubborn.
Not easy to please, satisfy, or manage.
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

Highly involved or intricate
Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate.
Difficult to understand, analyze, or solve for having many interconnected elements. : complex.
Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust
Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.

Hard to understand or solve; perplexing; puzzling: as, a difficult passage in an author; a difficult question or problem.
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.
Not easy
To perplex; embarrass.
To make difficult; impede.
Synonyms Difficult, Hard, Arduous (see arduous), laborious, toilsome; obscure, knotty.

To render intricate or involved; make perplexing or obscure.
Perplexingly involved or entangled; hard to disentangle or disengage, or to trace out; complicated; obscure: as, an intricate knot; the intricate windings of a labyrinth; intricate accounts; the intricate plot of a tragedy.
In entomology, having unequal elevations and depressions placed irregularly and close together, but without running into each other: said of a sculptured surface.
Elaborate

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

Subtle, Sophisticated, Delicate, Complicated, Involved, Fancy, Tortuous, Luxuriant, Tangled, Knotty, Byzantine, Complex, Labyrinthine, Elaborate, Convoluted

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

Subtle, Sophisticated, Delicate, Complicated, Involved, Fancy, Tortuous, Luxuriant, Tangled, Knotty, Byzantine, Complex, Labyrinthine, Elaborate, Convoluted

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.

Metamorphosis is suggested through intricate enmeshing of materials.
Intricate Arabic lamp with lights on shiny background.
This is an extremely complex and intricate area.
The tapestries were enormous and of intricate detail.
Wow D this sounds like an intricate case.
He suggested choosing a robust but intricate flower.
Data science is a complex and intricate field.
Islamic religion with an intricate and interesting story.
Human brain works in a very intricate manner.
Once paid in your county mo public request an intricate understanding of an intricate understanding of springfield believes the clerk.