 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
troublesome
adjective: difficult to deal with; "a troublesome infection"; "a
troublesome situation"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Troublesome \Trou"ble*some\, adjective
Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
This troublesome world. --Book of
Common Prayer.
These troublesome disguises that we wear. --Milton.
My mother will never be troublesome to me. --Pope.
Syn: Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing; harassing; annoying;
disgusting; irksome; afflictive; burdensome; tiresome;
wearisome; importunate.
-- {Trou"ble*some*ly}, adverb --
{Trou"ble*some*ness}, noun
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
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