Difference between Stubborn and Difficult

STUBBORN vs DIFFICULT: ADJECTIVE

Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things
Difficult to treat or deal with; resistant to treatment or effort.
Characterized by a refusal to change one's mind or course of action; dogged or persistent.
Refusing to change one's mind or course of action despite pressure to do so; unyielding or resolute. : obstinate.
Persisting in a reactionary stand
Not responding to treatment
Tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting.
Difficult to treat or deal with

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

Synonyms and Refractory, Intractable, etc. (see obstinate); wilful, headstrong, unruly, inflexible, obdurate, ungovernable, indocile, mulish.
Harsh; rough; rude; coarse in texture or quality.
Difficult of treatment or management; hard to deal with or handle; not easily manipulated; refractory; tough; unyielding; stiff.
Persistently pursued or practised; obstinately maintained; not readily abandoned or relinquished.
Persistently obdurate; obtuse to reason or right; obstinately perverse.
Fixed or set in opinion or purpose; obstinately determined; inflexibly resolute; not to be moved by persuasion; unyielding.
Sturdy; stout; strong.
To make stubborn; render stiff, unyielding, enduring, or the like.

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

Bolshy, Hard, Stroppy, Pertinacious, Dogged, Dour, Intractable, Hardheaded, Cantankerous, Bullheaded, Pigheaded, Unyielding, Mulish, Tenacious, Obstinate

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

Bolshy, Hard, Stroppy, Pertinacious, Dogged, Dour, Intractable, Hardheaded, Cantankerous, Bullheaded, Pigheaded, Unyielding, Mulish, Tenacious, Obstinate

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

Why do you want to be so stubborn?
It reduces stubborn dark spots, revealing spotless skin.
It works on even the most stubborn calluses.
Sterren was stubborn enough to wait for him.
Creative, funny, unapologetically myself, realist, and sometimes stubborn.
Moses taught the Israelites not to be stubborn.
Ketoconazole commonly used for stubborn dandruff, psoriasis, etc.
My Dad is a very stubborn man and my Mam, although not quite as stubborn, is certainly more animated.
Kids can be stubborn just to be stubborn.
We introduce nondeterministic stubborn sets, stubborn sets which preserve strong cyclic plans.

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.