Difference between Difficult and Painstaking

DIFFICULT vs PAINSTAKING: NOUN

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.
Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
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
Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

To make difficult; impede.
To perplex; embarrass.
Not easy
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.

That takes pains or trouble; characterized by close, careful, assiduous, or conscientious application or labor; industrious; laborious and careful: as, a painstaking person.

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

Tireless, Cumbersome, Strenuous, Diligent, Rigorous, Thorough, Delicate, Lengthy, Arduous, Tedious, Meticulous, Laborious, Conscientious, Careful, Scrupulous

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

Tireless, Cumbersome, Strenuous, Diligent, Rigorous, Thorough, Delicate, Lengthy, Arduous, Tedious, Meticulous, Laborious, Conscientious, Careful, Scrupulous

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.

It was a painstaking task to obtain and produce.
With each painstaking step, perspiration trickles down your back.
Writing your motivation letter can be a painstaking task.
It is the painstaking work of researchers like Dr.
Mama, thanks for your painstaking, I love you!
However, research is still a meticulous, painstaking process.
On all sides, painstaking but never the star.
Thank you for the painstaking collection of these.
Individual feedback generation is tedious and painstaking process.
Same painstaking craftsmanship we used back then same painstaking craftsmanship we used way back when with the same craftsmanship.