Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Full of trouble.
- adj. Uneasy; troubled.
- adj. Causing trouble; troublesome.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Agitated; disturbed.
- Restless; unsettled.
- Disturbing; disquieting.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
- adj. Troubled, confused.
- adj. Causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of trouble; causing trouble.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. full of trouble
Etymologies
- From Old French troubleus, corresponding to trouble + -ous. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We live in troublous and trying times -- the world is full of horrors and the great thing about our age is that you can now see most of them right at home on television.”
“We live, Mr. Chairman, in troublous and trying times.”
“We are in troublous waters, and the man who is abdicating his citizenship or not supporting his private and business interests today comes mighty near being a modern traitor.”
“She would have explained to him that even if his dinner had not been quite satisfactory, he was lucky to get anything in troublous times like these; she would have told him that if, having to eat poor meals was all the discomfiture that came his way, he was getting off light and easy.”
“Suppose we all clear out, so Nat can cut upstairs if he wants to," proposed Franz, and led the way to the barn, their refuge in troublous times.”
“In times of peace we should learn ourselves, and teach others, that which in troublous times both they and we must practise.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“While his enemies sought to destroy him, he quitted the place; to teach us in troublous times to shift for our own safety; but see here,”
“The grace of faith is a sovereign cordial, and an effectual antidote against fainting-fits in troublous times.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“But this is our comfort, that God will carry on his own work, will build up his Jerusalem, will beautify it, will fortify it, even in troublous times; nay, the troublousness of the times may by the grace of God contribute to the advancement of the church.”
“The street shall be built again, as spacious and splendid as ever it was, and the walls, even in troublous times.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘troublous’.
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A whooshing of turpentine up my nostrils
Descriptors to use at your next wine-tasting
sawdusty, barnyardy, igneous, graphitic, impolitic, noisome, eldritch, lovecraftian, beanfeastish, spidery, impious, daft and 63 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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words that trip off the tongue
ideology, phallocentric, parapraxis, gelid, illusion, tangible, tangibility, crux, medusa, noir, chloroform, chap and 98 more...
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word set 12
plasmasphere, cockatrice, delimitable, precipitancy, trellising, thermochromism, cadenza, tentaculiferous, fluctiferous, circumambient, loblolly, trailing edge and 142 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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Double diphthongs, etc.
Words with repeated diphthongs or other pairs of vowels, with no other vowels.
aeae, aiai, aoao, auau, ayay, eaea, eiei, eoeo, eueu, eyey, iaia, ieie, ioio, iuiu, oaoa, oeoe, oioi, ouo...chaetae, airmail, gainsaid, hairbrain, hairtail, jailbait, maimai, mainsail, maintain, zaikai, chainmail, braindrain and 201 more...
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Words I thought I knew, but really di...
acclivity, adduce, adumbrate, animadversion, assonance, atavistic, bagatelle, bromide, buncombe, canard, categorical, cavil and 145 more...
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the blood jet is poetry
A selection of frequent or favourite words from Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, as part of my bid to read them all. Quotes can be found on each citation page.
whiteness, zen, dryad, rook, tulip, kindness, troublous, portico, prospect, blight, havoc, millrace and 62 more...
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Poetic Words
outgrabe, mome raths, borogoves, mimsy, wabe, gimble, gyre, toves, slithy, brillig, twas, camelot and 76 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for troublous.
ofravens Not this troublous
Wringing of hands, this dark
Ceiling without a star.
from "Child," Sylvia Plath Mar 26, 2008
yarb "Mrs Yule gave a troublous sigh, and for a few minutes pondered anxiously."
George Gissing, New Grub Street. Jan 29, 2008