Troubling vs Difficult - What's the difference?
troubling | difficult |
The infliction of trouble or distress.
* (Donald Friend)
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
* 2008 , Daniel Goleman, Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (ISBN 0307483762), page 199:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
As adjectives the difference between troubling and difficult
is that troubling is distressing, worrying while difficult is hard, not easy, requiring much effort.As verbs the difference between troubling and difficult
is that troubling is while difficult is (obsolete|transitive) to make difficult; to impede; to perplex.As a noun troubling
is the infliction of trouble or distress.troubling
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Derived terms
* troublinglyVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Even more important in contributing to a sense of welfare, we both made drawings all the morning, and have laid at rest the troublings of artistic conscience.
difficult
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Adjective
(en adjective)- There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone.
- In adults, the same kind of anger has been studied in people trying to solve a very difficult math problem. Though the tough math problem is very frustrating, there is an active attempt to solve the problem and meet the goal.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.