Troublesome

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Troublesome \Trou"ble*some\, a.
     Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
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           This troublesome world.                  --Book of
                                                    Common Prayer.


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           These troublesome disguises that we wear. --Milton.
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           My mother will never be troublesome to me. --Pope.
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     Syn: Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing; harassing; annoying;
          disgusting; irksome; afflictive; burdensome; tiresome;
          wearisome; importunate.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Trou"ble*some*ly}, adv. --
          {Trou"ble*some*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  troublesome
       adj : difficult to deal with; "a troublesome infection"; "a
             troublesome situation"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "troublesome":
     Herculean, adverse, aggravating, alarming, annoying, antagonistic,
     arduous, awkward, backbreaking, besetting, bothering, bothersome,
     burdensome, chafing, choking, clumsy, conflicting, constrictive,
     contrary, counter, counteractive, counterproductive, crosswise,
     crushing, detrimental, difficult, discommodious, disquieting,
     distressful, distressing, disturbing, effortful, exasperating,
     forced, fretting, galling, grueling, harassing, hard, hard-earned,
     hard-fought, harmful, heavy, hefty, hindering, hindersome, hostile,
     importunate, importune, in opposition, in the way, incommodious,
     inconvenient, infestive, inhibiting, inhibitive, inimical,
     interrupting, interruptive, irking, irksome, irritating, killing,
     labored, laborious, mean, miserable, not easy, obstructing,
     obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, onerous, operose, opposed,
     opposing, opposite, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestering,
     pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey,
     plaguing, provoking, punishing, repressive, restrictive, rigorous,
     sinister, stifling, strained, strangling, strenuous, stressful,
     suppressive, teasing, tiresome, toilsome, tormenting, tough,
     troubling, troublous, trying, ugly, unfavorable, unhandy, untoward,
     unwieldy, uphill, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wicked,
     worrisome, worrying, wretched