Difference between Difficult and Tortuous

DIFFICULT vs TORTUOUS: 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.
Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
Hard to control
Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome; eg. said of a person, a horse, etc.
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort

Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
Injurious: tortious.
Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding.
Highly involved; complex.
Not straightforward; circuitous; devious.
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Highly involved or intricate
Not straightforward
Marked by repeated turns and bends
Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting.

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.
Not easy
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.
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.

Synonyms Sinuous, serpentine, curvilinear, circuitous, indirect, roundabout.
Figuratively, circuitous; devious; irregular; crooked: especially in a moral sense.
Oblique: applied in astrology to the six zodiacal signs which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
Full of twists or turns; winding; hence, crooked; zigzag.
An obsolete variant of tortious.

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

Laborious, Arduous, Involved, Indirect, Crooked, Intricate, Complex, Tangled, Twisting, Twisty, Winding, Knotty, Byzantine, Labyrinthine, Convoluted

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

Laborious, Arduous, Involved, Indirect, Crooked, Intricate, Complex, Tangled, Twisting, Twisty, Winding, Knotty, Byzantine, Labyrinthine, 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.

Instead, gene and behavior are often connected by tortuous routes.
It was mentally tortuous, almost like being in a gulag.
It has thus passed some severe and tortuous tests already.
ANT: Indirect, winding, incurved, tortuous, sinuous, serpentine, circuitous, waving, crooked.
Engorged and tortuous veins always indicate some underlying pathology.
Tortuous vessels often demonstrate a finite amplitude of waviness.
Proving citizenship in Assam is a tortuous process.
Dilated and tortuous blood vessels in dermal papillae.
The Agreement has a somewhat tortuous negotiating history.
Hello, I want to share my tortuous experience.