troubled en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈtɹʌbl̩d/
- (US) audio
Meanings
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Anxious, worried, careworn.
Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
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Afflicted by difficulties.
The troubled Internet company announced another round of layoffs last week.
If you're southbound you shouldn't be troubled by any rain this morning.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most troubled | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more troubled | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
nontroubled · fish in troubled waters · troubledness · bridge over troubled waters · untroubled · distroubled · overtroubled · pour oil on troubled waters · troubledly · troubled asset · troubled waters · cast oil on troubled waters
Translations (15)
de besorgt (worried, anxious) · ja 心配した (worried, anxious) · eo ĝenita (worried, anxious) · cmn 擔心 /担心 (worried, anxious) · ru встрево́женный (worried, anxious) · eo maltrankvila (worried, anxious) · de gestört (worried, anxious) · bg неспокоен (worried, anxious) · hi त्रस्त (worried, anxious) · ru обеспоко́енный (worried, anxious) · bg разтревожен (worried, anxious) · hi परेशान (worried, anxious) · es emproblemado (worried, anxious) · la sollicitus (worried, anxious) · hi संतप्त (worried, anxious)