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troublesome, a.|ˈtrʌb(ə)lsəm|
Forms: see trouble n.
[f. trouble n. + -some1.]
Full of, characterized by, or causing trouble.
†1. Full of disturbance or tumult; disturbed, disorderly, unsettled, troublous. Obs.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV, 19 His painfull and busi wanderyng, his troblesome and vncertaine abidyng. 1553in Hakluyt Voy. (1599) II. 111 There arose in the ship such a troublesome disturbance, that all the ship was in an vprore with weapons. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 98 The state of Christendom was troublesome. 1687Aldworth in Magd. Coll. & Jas. II (O.H.S.) 63 In troublesome times.
†b. Causing or inclined to cause disturbance; turbulent. Obs.
1552Huloet, Troublesome, or full of troublynge, or who troubleth muche, vexabundus. 1591Savile Tacitus, Hist. i. lxvii. 37 His froward and troublesome disposition. 1687H. Holden in Magd. Coll. & Jas. II (O.H.S.) 124 The Crowd..was very troublesome.
†c. Characterized by physical disturbance or agitation; stormy. Obs.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. Pref. 2 b, In so many troublesome stormes, and tempestes full of pearil. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 697 It is a troublesome River and dangerous even in Summer time. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Pref., A troublesome and tempestuous sea.
2. Full of trouble, affliction, or distress; troubled, sorrowful. arch.
1552Bk. Com. Prayer, Public Baptism Infants, That they..maye so passe the waues of thys troublesome world, that [etc.]. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. (Parker Soc.) 321 Heretics, by whom it [marriage] hath been not only misliked as troublesome, but utterly condemned as unclean. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iv. vi. §4. 281 So many Darts..as tooke away his..hopes, together with his troublesome life. 1734Arbuthnot Let. to Swift 4 Oct., I am going out of this troublesome world. 1853Lynch Self-Improv. ii. 43 Christianity is..plainly designed for a troublesome world.
†b. Troubled in mind, having trouble. rare—1.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. v. (S.T.S.) I. 289 For the cleir cloudis to the dulfull was pleisant, and to the trublesum happie.
3. Giving trouble; causing annoyance; vexatious, distressing, worrying, bothering.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 4, I hope you wil haue me excusid thouh I be trubblesum to your waihtier affaiers. 1598Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 325 Ile rather be vnmannerly, then troublesome. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies ii. xiii. 112 Why are not the nightes in summer at Peru, as hotte and troublesome as in Spaine? 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 97 This small mony..is troublesome in the telling and handling. 1747Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) 84 If the Cough be very troublesome. 1839Thirlwall Greece xlv. VI. 33 If the barbarians were troublesome neighbours.
4. Involving labour or effort; toilsome, laborious, difficult; tiresome, wearisome, oppressive. Now rare.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 243 An office of exceeding great authoritie, and maruellous troublesome. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa v. 236 Their streetes either descend or ascend, which is verie troublesome to them that haue any busines in the towne. 1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 253 Leauing our troublesome way. 1780Mirror No. 97 ⁋30 When I first got the multiplication-table by heart..it was a plaguy troublesome job. 1836–41Brande Chem. (ed. 5) 485 Phosphorus may be purified by careful distillation, but the process is troublesome and dangerous.
†b. Painstaking, laborious. Obs. rare.
1818Moore Mem. (1853) II. 245 A most learned and troublesome practician. |