Difficult
Difficult adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Troubled and difficult are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Troubled" instead an adjective "Difficult".
Nearby Word: difficulty
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Or, for people with a particularly difficult and troubled life, being returned to life, to that horrible life, is their punishment.
Source: Barred from the Afterlife - Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: Frege, being totally honest and devoted to truth & logic, but also eccentric and difficult.
Source: Comic Book / Logicomix - So better to only explore troubled, difficult relationships for dramatic purposes until someone wants a happy relationship on which to retire their character.
Source: Shipping Bed Death
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Troubled and Difficult. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/troubled
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