Difference between Difficult and Thorny

DIFFICULT vs THORNY: ADJECTIVE

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

Troublesome or vexatious
Having thorns or spines
A prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (Fagonia Cretica, etc.).
Rest-harrow.
Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny.
Controversial, problematic, or vexatious.
Having many thorns or abounding in thorn-covered vegetation.
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Bristling with perplexities
Spiny or prickly.

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.
Not easy
Hard to please or satisfy; not compliant; unaccommodating; rigid; austere: as, a person of difficult temper.
To make difficult; impede.
To perplex; embarrass.
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.

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

Vexing, Briery, Knotty, Barbellate, Armed, Burred, Burry, Bristled, Hard, Briary, Spiny, Barbed, Bristly, Difficult, Prickly

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

Vexing, Knotty, Briery, Barbellate, Armed, Burred, Burry, Bristled, Hard, Briary, Spiny, Barbed, Bristly, Difficult, Prickly

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 problem of demobilization was a thorny one.
Deserts have low rainfall and thorny woody plants.
These thorny plants grow as vines and shrubs.
Translation rights also represent a potentially thorny area.
With kitchen shears, trim thorny tips of leaves.
We know the thorny places in our lives.
Rehnquist made short work of that thorny issue.
Just a second, many thorny problems go normal.
Palestine presented some very thorny and difficult questions.
Diana Thorny-Croft Thorny - Croft uses photographs to investigate the human body as a site for psychic and physical turmoil and damage.