Troublous
[trʌblәs]
Definition
(a.) Full of trouble; causing trouble.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Tumultuous, agitated.[2]. Full of trouble.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Afflictive, agitated, tumultuous, trying
ANT:Soothing, healing, calming, comforting
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Examples
- Edison until we find him keeping a hotel at Vienna, marrying a school-teacher there (Miss Nancy Elliott, in 1828), and taking a lively share in the troublous politics of the time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The face, often so weary with pain, so restless with troublous thoughts, had now the faint soft smile of eternal rest upon it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- About this property many troublous questions insisted on rising: had she not been right in thinking that the half of it ought to go to Will Ladislaw? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In my troublous sleep I ha' known thee still to be there. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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