Difference between Difficult and Rugged

DIFFICULT vs RUGGED: ADJECTIVE

Hard to control
Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome; eg. said of a person, a horse, etc.
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort
Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn.
Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
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
Requiring much effort and trouble

Sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
Very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
Topographically very uneven
Having a rough irregular surface.
Rocky and steep
Having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions
Violent; rude; boisterous; -- said of conduct, manners, etc.
Harsh; grating; rough to the ear -- said of sound, style, and the like.
Rocky and bare of plantlife
Strong, sturdy, well-built
Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough
Covered with a rug.
Having a rug or rugs.
Vigorous; robust; hardy; -- said of health, physique, etc.
Violent; rude; boisterrous; -- said of conduct, manners, etc.
Rough to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, style, and the like.
Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
Harsh; hard; crabbed; austere; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons.
Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
Not neat or regular; uneven.
Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough.
Lacking culture or polish; coarse and rude.
Demanding great effort, ability, or endurance.
Tempestuous; stormy.
Having a sturdy build or strong constitution.
Having strong features marked with furrows or wrinkles.
Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc.

Not easy
Synonyms Difficult, Hard, Arduous (see arduous), laborious, toilsome; obscure, knotty.
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.
Not easy; requiring or dependent on effort; hard; troublesome; arduous.
To perplex; embarrass.
To make difficult; impede.
Hard to do, perform, or overcome; attended with labor, pains, or opposition; laborious: as, a difficult undertaking.

Vigorous; robust; strong in health.
Marked by harshness, severity, or anger; fierce; rough; ungentle.
Rough in temper; harsh; hard; austere.
Unsoftened by refinement or cultivation; rude; homely; unpolished; ignorant.
Rough to the ear; harsh; grating.
Wrinkled; furrowed; corrugated; hence, ruffled; disturbed; uneasy.
Rough; tempestuous: said of the sea or weather.
Covered with rough projections; broken into sharp or irregular points or prominences; rough; uneven: as, a rugged mountain; rugged rocks.
Having a rough, hairy surface or nap; shaggy; bristly; ragged.
Enduring
Very difficult

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

Beefy, Ruggedized, Clifflike, Broken, Cliffy, Knockabout, Difficult, Unsmooth, Hard, Robust, Tough, Rough, Hardy, Craggy, Sturdy

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

Beefy, Ruggedized, Clifflike, Broken, Cliffy, Knockabout, Difficult, Unsmooth, Hard, Robust, Tough, Rough, Hardy, Craggy, Sturdy

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.

Brearley; it is rugged, hard, passionate and urban.
Ajo area is rugged, isolated low desert terrain.
Rugged flows are known in Auvergne as cheires.
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White Cliff Head to a marker Rugged Point.
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Scotland is beautiful, but rugged and wild, and in bygone days the people who lived there were rugged and wild too.
German, the Germans had this winter line in the really rugged, rugged mountainous terrain in Italy there, along the coast.
Rugged Cams manufactures business security cameras that are tough, rugged, and will withstand anything that man or mother nature can throw at them.
Rugged laptops are essential for some businesses, especially those that employ workers in rugged or remote conditions.