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troublous

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trou·blous  (trbls)
adj.
1.
a. Full of trouble.
b. Uneasy; troubled.
2. Causing trouble; troublesome.
troublous [ˈtrʌbləs]
adj
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) Archaic or literary unsettled; agitated
troublously  adv
troublousness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.troubloustroublous - full of trouble; "these are troublous times"
troubled - characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers"
Translations
troublous [ˈtrʌbləs] ADJ (liter) [times] → turbulento, difícil
troublous
adj (liter) → unruhig


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For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal--this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully illuminated life.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
To outsiders the five energetic women seemed to rule the house, and so they did in many things, but the quiet scholar, sitting among his books, was still the head of the family, the household conscience, anchor, and comforter, for to him the busy, anxious women always turned in troublous times, finding him, in the truest sense of those sacred words, husband and father.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
It is said the the Dilsbergers do not emigrate much; they find that living up there above the world, in their peaceful nest, is pleasanter than living down in the troublous world.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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