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TROUBLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
Example:
a turbulent and unruly childhood
Synonyms:
disruptive; riotous; troubled; tumultuous; turbulent
Classified under:
Similar:
unquiet (characterized by unrest or disorder)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
Example:
troubled teenagers
Classified under:
Similar:
troublous (full of trouble)
suffering (troubled by pain or loss)
struggling (engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity)
distressed; stressed (suffering severe physical strain or distress)
mothy (infested with moths)
haunted (showing emotional affliction or disquiet)
hag-ridden; hagridden; tormented (tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears)
fraught (marked by distress)
embattled ((of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict)
distressed; hard-pressed; hard put; in a bad way (facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty)
disquieted; distressed; disturbed; upset; worried (afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief)
clouded (made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance)
care-laden; heavy-laden (burdened by cares)
careful (full of cares or anxiety)
buffeted; storm-tossed; tempest-swept; tempest-tossed; tempest-tost (pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities)
anxious; nervous; queasy; uneasy; unquiet (causing or fraught with or showing anxiety)
annoyed; harassed; harried; pestered; vexed (troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances)
Also:
unquiet (characterized by unrest or disorder)
concerned (feeling or showing worry or solicitude)
Antonym:
untroubled (not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb trouble
Context examples:
But the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, not being made of flesh, were not troubled by the scent of the flowers.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
When he, strong man that he was, loving life as he did, accepted his death, it was plain that he was troubled by something more than mere blindness.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Good-bye, and I am very sorry that you should have been troubled over a case with which, as you say, you have nothing whatever to do.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His troubled blue eyes glanced at each of us, and finally rested with an expression of blank dismay upon Bannister in the farther corner.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But not one of these grave reflections troubled the tranquillity of Catherine.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I am sorry that Miss Sutherland has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far better not to wash linen of the sort in public.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
South Korean electronics giant Samsung says it will no longer manufacture its troubled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after numerous reports around the globe of overheating.
(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)
He seemed therefore confident, that, instead of reason we were only possessed of some quality fitted to increase our natural vices; as the reflection from a troubled stream returns the image of an ill shapen body, not only larger but more distorted.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And yet somehow the possibility and even the probability of it had occurred to me from the beginning, and I believe that it had to Harrison also, for I had noticed that his face grew grave and troubled from the very moment that there was talk of the stranger below.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He became obsessed by the idea that it was his duty to kill Dennin; and whenever he waited upon the bound man or watched by him, Edith was troubled by the fear that Hans would add another red entry to the cabin's record.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
