What's the difference between daunting and difficult?

Daunting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daunt

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But to endure a cut of £100m just after becoming the mayor and a further £23m this year has been daunting.
  • (2) Despite campaign pledges from both leading parties that, if elected, they will try to cushion the blow, the measures add amount to a daunting legislative programme from which Greece’s new prime minister – whatever his name – will find it difficult, if not impossible, to deviate.
  • (3) They rightly perceive that there is a better chance that retailers can get it to them there.” James Daunt, chief executive of the bookstore chain Waterstones , said its online deliveries were being delayed by “one or two days” as a result of problems at its courier service, Yodel, which has been overwhelmed with demand from the retailers it serves.
  • (4) It's daunting, but St Louis have the bats and thus the best chance of any team in the NL to wipe out LA, who, despite losing Matt Kemp for the season, can hit a little bit as well.
  • (5) "In the past that kind of thing has been quite daunting.
  • (6) With pressure mounting in the US for the launch of a full-blooded inquiry into News Corporation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the daunting consequences of such a move are becoming evident.
  • (7) Here's a summary of where things stand: • A Senate hearing on the crisis of child immigration to the United States laid bare a daunting tangle of overlapping bureaucracies charged with handling each child's case.
  • (8) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
  • (9) After a successful convention they came back thrilled by the speeches and daunted by the prospects .
  • (10) It is very important now to continue that good vibe.” Spurs have already played the four clubs ahead of them in the table, as well as the four directly below, and now embark on a sequence of fixtures that, on paper at least, would appear to be less daunting.
  • (11) It is a story that is rarely told in large part because of the technical difficulties — the physics and maths underlying the technique can appear daunting.
  • (12) The planning, establishment, financing and general organization of a Diabetic Screening Service within a District Health Authority can be a daunting task if not handled correctly.
  • (13) There is, however, no mention of ​the service for which the co-operative has now become famous – as ​the alleged ​headquarters of ​a ​mafia-style criminal gang that through a network of links with politicians and businessmen appears to hold a daunting influence over the Italian capital.
  • (14) Hurley stated, "Protracted fever of obscure cause remains one of the more daunting clinical challenges facing the physician.
  • (15) Roy Hodgson oversaw England's return to the top of Group H but still left the national stadium frustrated after admitting a comfortable victory had been "overshadowed" by a harsh booking for Danny Welbeck that will rule him out of Tuesday's daunting game in Ukraine.
  • (16) Meanwhile for victims and defendants, the court process is slow, inefficient and daunting .
  • (17) Keith Forsyth had trouble picking the lock, which was daunting.
  • (18) That may well be a tongue-in-cheek comment, but Musk's determination to tackle daunting technological challenges is undoubted.
  • (19) "At the moment things look daunting, but everyone said that the opening up of television in America to cable would result in a race to the lowest common denominator and just look at the list of wonderful programmes that has brought us.
  • (20) It’s a big ask.” West Brom, who remain seven points above the bottom three but face a daunting set of fixtures that includes the top three and Liverpool, had designated this fixture Jeff Astle Day, in memory of the striker who died from chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 2002.

Difficult


Definition:

  • (a.) Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
  • (a.) Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
  • (v. t.) To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
  • (2) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (3) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
  • (4) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
  • (5) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
  • (6) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (7) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (8) In many cases, physicians seek to protect themselves from involvement with these difficult, highly anxious patients by making a referral to a psychiatrist.
  • (9) The diagnosis of variant- or Prizmetal-angina is difficult because if insufficient specificity of the tests.
  • (10) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
  • (11) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
  • (12) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
  • (13) Conversion of the active-site thiol to thiocyanate makes it more difficult to inactivate the enzyme by treatment with Cd2+.
  • (14) If they end up going to another club that is difficult to take.
  • (15) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
  • (16) The most difficult thing I've dealt with at work is ... the terminal illness of a valued colleague.
  • (17) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
  • (18) This hypothesis is difficult to substantiate with direct measurements using human subjects.
  • (19) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
  • (20) Companies had made investments in certain energy sources, the president said, so change could be “uncomfortable and difficult”.