troubled
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English
[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]Adjective
[edit ]troubled (comparative more troubled, superlative most troubled)
- Anxious, worried, careworn.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger , London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., [...], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- Afflicted by difficulties.
- The troubled Internet company announced another round of layoffs last week.
- If you're southbound you shouldn't be troubled by any rain this morning.
Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]worried, anxious — see also afflicted
- Bulgarian: неспокоен (bg) (nespokoen), разтревожен (bg) (raztrevožen)
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: maltrankvila , ĝenita
- German: gestört (de) , besorgt (de)
- Hindi: परेशान (hi) (pareśān), त्रस्त (hi) (trast), संतप्त (hi) (santapt)
- Japanese: 心配した (ja) (しんぱいした, shinpai shita)
- Latin: sollicitus (la)
- Russian: обеспоко́енный (ru) (obespokójennyj), встрево́женный (ru) (vstrevóžennyj)
- Spanish: emproblemado (es)
Verb
[edit ]troubled
- simple past and past participle of trouble
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