Difficulty vs. Trouble — What's the Difference?

The condition or quality of being difficult

Difficulty or problems

Something not easily done, accomplished, comprehended, or solved

Public unrest or disorder

Often difficulties A troublesome or embarrassing state of affairs, especially of financial affairs

Cause distress or anxiety to

A disagreement or dispute

A state of distress, affliction, difficulty, or need

The state of being difficult, or hard to do.

A distressing or difficult circumstance or situation

An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.

A cause or source of distress, disturbance, or difficulty

Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning

Effort, especially when inconvenient or bothersome

An objection.

A condition of pain, disease, or malfunction

That which cannot be easily understood or believed.

Public unrest or disorder.

An awkward situation or quarrel.

An instance of this; a disturbance.

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; - opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.

Troubles Any of various conflicts or rebellions in Ireland or Northern Ireland, especially the period of social unrest in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969.

Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.

To afflict with pain or discomfort

A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.

To cause to be anxious or worried

Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; - usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.

To cause to have emotional or mental problems that interfere with social functioning

An effort that is inconvenient;

To inconvenience; bother

A factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result;

To agitate; stir up

A condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome;

To take pains

The quality of being difficult;

A distressing or dangerous situation.

A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.

A violent occurrence or event.

Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.

A malfunction.

Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.

(mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

(Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. trouble and strife

To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).

(transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.

(transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.

To take pains to do something.

(intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

To give occasion for labor to; - used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

Troubled; dark; gloomy.

The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.

That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.

A fault or interruption in a stratum.

A source of difficulty;

An angry disturbance;

An event causing distress or pain;

An effort that is inconvenient;

A strong feeling of anxiety;

An unwanted pregnancy;

Move deeply;

To cause inconvenience or discomfort to;

Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed;

Take the trouble to do something; concern oneself;

Cause bodily suffering to