Difference between Difficult and Serious

DIFFICULT vs SERIOUS: 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.
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.
Requiring much effort and trouble
Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

Of great consequence
Important; weighty; not trifling; leaving no room for play; needing great attention; critical.
Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn.
Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger.
Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.
Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.
Not easily answered or solved.
Being of such import as to cause anxiety.
Of considerable size or scope; substantial.
Not joking or trifling.
Appealing to the mind
Deeply interested or involved.
Intended for sophisticated people.
Requiring or carried out with careful thought or concern.
Careful in thought, full of concern, or restrained and dignified in manner; somber or grave.
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
Completely lacking in playfulness
Requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve
Concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities
Concerned with important rather than trivial matters.

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.
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.

Grave in feeling, manner, or disposition; solemn; earnest; not light, gay, or volatile; of things, springing from, expressing, or inducing gravity or earnestness of feeling.
In earnest; not jesting or making pretense.
Important; weighty; not trifling.
Attended with danger; giving rise to apprehension: as, a serious illness.
Deeply impressed with the importance of religion; making profession of or pretension to religion.
Synonyms Solemn, etc. See grave.
1 and Sedate, staid, sober, earnest.
Great, momentous.

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

Sober, Earnest, Difficult, Sincere, Thoughtful, Sensible, Good, Important, Sobering, Real, Critical, Dangerous, Grave, Grievous, Severe

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

Sober, Earnest, Difficult, Sincere, Thoughtful, Sensible, Good, Important, Sobering, Real, Critical, Dangerous, Grave, Grievous, Severe

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.

The product may fall, causing serious injury to a child or adult and serious damage to the product.
For the most part, detention is a punishment for students who commit minor problems, and school reserve more serious punishments for more serious infractions.
Imagine a scenario where there has been a serious crime in a town and the Sheriff is trying to prevent serious rioting.
Filing a crash report is important for serious car accidents, but also for less serious scenarios.
There was a time when psychedelics were a serious medicine under serious study, especially for alcoholics.
We have serious golf tools for serious golfers, and some clever gadgets just for fun!
Appoints serious accident investigation teams or trained investigators for the investigation of serious accidents.
Our national discussion of hateful speech is deadly serious, and calls for a serious approach, not empty rhetoric.
Serious tal llness: Serious mental illness is defined differently across programs, policies, and in research literature.
Posts tagged serious or of a serious nature may be subject to higher scrutiny.