单词 | troublesome |
释义 | troublesomeadj. Full of, characterized by, or causing trouble. a. Full of disturbance or tumult; disturbed, disorderly, unsettled, troublous. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [adjective] unquietc1384 troublousc1449 peaceless1522 troublesome1548 strifeful1621 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [adjective] troublousc1449 unquiet?1520 troublesome1548 tumultuous1548 disturbed1593 hurly-burly1598 wild1600 unsettled1605 routing1634 tumultuary1650 dissettled1673 embroiled1709 weltering1831 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xix His painfull and busi wanderyng, his troblesome and vncertaine abidyng. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xcviij The state of christendom was troublesome. 1599 J. Lok in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 111 There arose in the ship such a troublesome disturbance, that all the ship was in an vprore with weapons. 1687 C. Aldworth in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) 63 In troublesome times. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > attended by or causing affliction eileOE soreOE unselec1050 evilc1175 derfa1225 stourc1275 feeble1297 illa1325 fella1400 unhappya1400 unwealful1412 importunea1425 noisomea1450 shrewd1482 importunable?c1485 importunate1490 funestal1538 nippingc1550 troublesome1552 pinching1563 grievesome1568 afflicting1573 afflictive1576 pressing1591 lacerating1609 funest1636 funestous1641 gravaminous1659 unkind1682 plightful1721 damning1798 acanthocladous1858 damnatory1858 fraught1966 society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [adjective] > of disposition troublousc1485 troublesome1552 unpacifica1750 dispeaceful1892 trouble-making1920 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Troublesome, or full of troublynge, or who troubleth muche, vexabundus. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 37 His froward and troublesome disposition. 1687 H. Holden in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 124 The Crowd..was very troublesome. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > moving water > [adjective] > agitated troublous1482 troublesome1560 broken1793 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > rough woodc900 drofc1000 bremea1300 scaldinga1300 sharp1377 wrothc1400 welteringc1420 rude?a1439 wawishc1450 wallya1522 robustuousa1544 troublesome1560 turbulent1573 boisterous?1594 lofty1600 enridged1608 hollow1705 ugly1744 testy1833 topping1857 seething1871 troughy1877 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > stormy reigheOE stormya1200 wilda1250 troublec1374 rougha1400 stormishc1430 rude?a1439 boistous1470 troublous1482 wair?a1500 tempestuous1509 blusterous1548 rugged1549 stormful1558 troublesome1560 turbulent1573 ruggy1577 rufflered1582 oragious?1590 boisterous?1594 broily1594 unruly1594 procellousa1629 gurly1718 coarse1774 ugly1844 1560 J. Daus in tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries Ep. sig. Aiiv In so many troublesome stormes, and tempestes ful of pearil. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 697 It is a troublesome river and dangerous even in summer time. 1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Pref. A troublesome and tempestuous sea. 2. a. Full of trouble, affliction, or distress; troubled, sorrowful. archaic. ΚΠ 1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Publique Baptisme sig. O.iii That they..maye so passe the waues of thys troublesome world. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xvi. 285 Heretikes, by whom it [sc. marriage] hath beene not onely misliked as troublesome, but vtterly condemned as vncleane. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. vi. §4. 281 So many Darts..as tooke away his..hopes, together with his troublesome life. 1734 J. Arbuthnot Let. 4 Oct. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) III. 191 I am going out of this troublesome world. 1853 T. T. Lynch Lect. Self-improvem. ii. 43 Christianity is..plainly designed for a troublesome world. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [adjective] reigheOE drofc1000 druvyOE restlessOE worya1225 forstraughtc1386 unquertc1390 unsaughtc1390 ill (evil) at easea1400 unrofula1400 unquietc1400 unrestya1413 unquieted?a1425 unrestful?c1425 unpeaceda1475 out of quieta1500 inquiet?1504 uneasya1513 perturbed1538 unquietous?1545 disquieted?1548 astraught1564 astraughted1565 agitate1567 turmoiled1570 disquiet1587 distroubled1590 weltered1590 disturbed1593 twitcheda1594 troublesome1596 stract1598 uncomposed1601 discomposed1603 incomposed1608 uncouth1660 unserene1664 chagrin1665 agitated1684 perturbated1704 disordered1711 perturbate1741 chagrineda1754 nervish1760 uncomfortable1796 funked1831 untranquillized1831 streaked1833 striped1839 discomfortable1844 streaky1848 bothered1851 funked out1859 bebothered1866 disorderly1871 fantod1883 rattled1885 aflap1887 shook1891 dicked-up1967 torqued1967 weirded out1973 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious angeeOE swinkfuleOE plightlyOE teenfulOE contrariousc1320 drefa1325 troublinga1325 despitousa1340 thornya1340 discomfortablec1350 troublablec1374 noyousa1382 noyfulc1384 diseasy1387 angrya1393 painful1395 hackinga1400 annoying?c1400 annoyousc1400 cumbrousc1400 teenc1400 annoyfulc1405 sputousc1420 diseasefula1425 molest?a1425 noying?a1425 noisomea1450 grievingc1450 tedious?1454 troublous1463 noisantc1475 displeasant1481 strouble1488 nuisant1494 noyanta1500 irksome1513 sturting1513 molestious1524 vexatious1534 cumbersome1535 uncommodious1541 spiteful1548 vexing?1548 incommodious1551 molestous1555 diseasing1558 grating1563 pestilent1565 sturtsome1570 molestuousa1572 troublesome1573 murrain1575 discommodable1579 galling1583 spiny1586 unsupportable1586 troubleful1588 plaguey1594 distressingc1595 molestful1596 molesting1598 vexful1598 fretful1603 briery1604 bemadding1608 mortifying1611 tiry1611 distressfula1616 irking1629 angersome1649 disobliging1652 discomforting1654 incomfortable1655 incommode1672 ruffling1680 unconvenient1683 pestifying1716 trying1718 offending1726 bothering1765 pesky1775 weary1785 sturty1788 unaccommodating1790 tiresome1798 werriting1808 bothersome1817 plaguesome1828 pestilential1833 fretsome1834 languorous1834 pesty1834 pestersome1843 nettlesome1845 miserable1850 niggling1854 distempering1855 be-maddeninga1861 nattery1873 nagging1883 pestiferous1890 trouble-giving1893 maddening1896 molestive1905 nuisancy1906 balls-aching?1912 nuisance1922 nattering1949 noodgy1969 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 cockish1996 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 4 I hope you wil haue me excusid thouh I be trubblesum to your waihtier affaiers. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor i. i. 292 Well sir, I will not be troublesome. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. xiii. 112 Why are not the nightes in summer at Peru, as hotte and troublesome as in Spaine? 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 97 This small mony..is troublesome in the telling and handling. 1755 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 5) 82 If the Cough be very troublesome. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. xlv. 33 If the barbarians were troublesome neighbours. 4. a. Involving labour or effort; toilsome, laborious, difficult; tiresome, wearisome, oppressive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or troublesome torc1175 terea1400 terefull1508 troublesome1576 livelya1777 1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Plinius Novocomensis in Panoplie Epist. 243 An office of exceeding great authoritie, and maruellous troublesome. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. v. 236 Their streetes either descend or ascend, which is verie troublesome to them that haue any busines in the towne. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 253 Leauing our troublesome way. 1780 Mirror No. 97. ⁋30 When I first got the multiplication-table by heart..it was a plaguy troublesome job. 1836–41 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 485 Phosphorus may be purified by careful distillation, but the process is troublesome and dangerous. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] > careful or painstaking peniblec1375 industrious1531 painful1531 hoful1565 industrous1570 laboriose1680 painstakinga1685 troublesome1818 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > acting with exertion > taking trouble peniblec1375 laboriose1680 troublesome1818 1818 T. Moore Mem. (1853) II. 245 A most learned and troublesome practician. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1548 |
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