Used to express a state of distress or anxiety affecting a person.

Full of toil or trouble; disastrous; troublesome, irksome; painful, distressing.

Perilous, troublesome, distressful.

Causing trouble or sorrow; vexatious, troublesome, painful, grievous, distressing. In later use English regional, Scottish, or archaic.

Of things: Opposed to one's interests; adverse, prejudicial, untoward, unfavourable, harmful, hurtful; annoying, vexatious.

Troublesome, vexatious, grievous.

That troubles; causing trouble.

originally. Full of despite; exhibiting contempt or haughtiness; hence, insulting, vexing.

figurative. Pricking or piercing to the mind; full of points painful or wounding to the feelings; painful, distressing; harassing, vexatious…

Causing discouragement, distress, grief, or sorrow; destroying, or tending to destroy, happiness or consolation. Obsolete (in later use passing into…

Troublesome, grievous.

Causing annoyance; vexatious, troublesome; (also) †causing harm or injury (obsolete).

Annoying, troublesome, tiresome. Also: harmful, hurtful, noxious.

Marked by or causing discomfort or trouble; annoying, troublesome.

Causing vexation or annoyance; troublesome, vexing. Obsolete.

Causing or accompanied by mental pain or suffering; distressing, hurtful.

Troublesome, annoying. Obsolete.

That causes irritation or annoyance; irritating, wearisome. Also formerly: †that causes harm, damage, or injury (obsolete).

Causing annoyance; irritating, annoying. Also formerly: †harmful, injurious (obsolete).

Causing trouble, distress, or annoyance; full of trouble or care; troublesome; harassing; wearisome, oppressive; = cumbersome, adj. 2. Obsolete.

Vexatious; troublesome, distressing. In early use also: perilous, harmful. rare.

Annoying, troublesome, tiresome. Also: harmful; unpleasant. Cf. noyful, adj.

= despitous, adj. Obsolete. rare.

Fraught with discomfort, trouble, or annoyance; troublesome. Obsolete.

Injurious; troublesome, vexatious.

That annoys or vexes; injurious.

Annoying, troublesome.

That causes grief, pain, or annoyance.

Wearisome in general; annoying, irksome, troublesome, disagreeable, painful. Obsolete exc. dialect.

Causing trouble or grief; painful, grievous; vexatious, troublesome.

Troublesome, harmful. Also as n.: harmful people as a class.

That displeases or causes displeasure or annoyance; displeasing; unpleasant; disagreeable.

Troublous.

Harmful, hurtful; of the nature of a nuisance.

Injurious; causing harm or annoyance.

Wearisome, tedious, tiresome; troublesome, burdensome, annoying. Formerly also, in wider sense, Distressing, painful; in early use, Disgusting…

Of a thing: That causes vexation or disquiet.

Troublesome.

Causing, or tending or disposed to cause, vexation; (in later use chiefly) spec. mentally or… Of a person, a person's disposition, etc.

Causing trouble, annoyance, or inconvenience; full of trouble; troublesome; wearisome, oppressive. Obsolete exc. dialect.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)

Distressing, annoying, vexing. Obsolete.

That vexes a person; that causes vexation.

Causing inconvenience or discomfort; troublesome, annoying, disagreeable, inconvenient.

= molestious, adj.

(in sense 1 (Obsolete) and sense 2).

Abrading, rasping; affecting painfully, as if by abrasion; irritating, fretting, ‘wearing’.

That pesters or annoys; troublesome. Also as an intensifier: confounded.

Disturbing, troublesome, vexatious.

Troublesome; troubled.

Giving trouble; causing annoyance; vexatious, distressing, worrying, bothering.

Disagreeable, foul, contemptible; = plaguey, adj. 1b. Obsolete.

Disagreeable, annoying.

figurative. Irritating, offensive to the mind or spirit.

Having the characteristics of a thorn or thorns; resembling a thorn in form or qualities.

Too objectionable or annoying to be endured with equanimity or patience.

full of trouble, troublesome (obsolete).

In weakened use: troublesome, annoying, vexatious, tiresome, disagreeable; (colloquial, as an intensifier) confounded, cursed, damnable, excessive…

That distresses or causes distress; see the verb.

Troublesome, annoying; painful.

That molests someone or something; troublesome, interfering, pestering; †troubling, vexing (obsolete rare).

= vexatious, adj.

Disposed to fret, irritable, peevish, ill-tempered; impatient, restless.

fig. Of the nature of briers; vexing.

Causing humiliation of feeling; (in early use) humbling, depressing; vexatious, annoying; (later usually) humiliating, shameful, embarrassing. (Now…

Tired, weary.

Fraught with, causing, or involving distress; distressing; painful.

Chiefly (and now only) Scottish. Annoying, vexatious. In early use also: †troublesome, distressing (cf. anger, n. 1) (obsolete).

That disobliges; disinclined to gratify the wishes or meet the convenience of another; unaccommodating; also, †inconvenient, annoying (obsolete).

Causing discomfort (in various senses).

= uncomfortable, adj.

Inconvenient, troublesome; = incommodious, adj. 1.

Causing disquiet, irritation, or annoyance. Obsolete.

= inconvenient, adj. (in various senses).

That pesters; annoying, troublesome.

That tests severely; that is a trial; hard to bear or endure; severe, distressing, painful; that tries one's endurance or patience.

That offends (in various senses of the verb); esp. that has caused the hurt or offence in question.

Annoying, irritating. Also: troubling, worrying.

Confounded; annoying, disagreeable; abominable, hateful.

Scottish and northern dialect. As an expression of irritation: Tiresome, vexatious, ‘wretched’, ‘confounded’.

= sturtsome, adj.

(un-, prefix1 affix 4.)

loosely. Troublesome, disagreeable, unpleasant; irksome, annoying, vexatious. colloquial.

Troublesome, annoying, irritating.

That tends to plague or trouble; troublesome, vexatious, plaguey; (also) full of plague.

colloquial. In weakened use: constituting a nuisance; annoying, irritating; (as an intensifier) confounded. Cf. pestiferous, adj. 3, pestilent, adj.…

Causing to fret; annoying.

Distressful, sorrowful, mournful. Obsolete.

Noxious, harmful; troublesome, annoying; = pesky, adj.

Annoying, troublesome.

Chiefly U.S. Irritating, vexatious, irksome; (also) difficult, awkward, tricky.

In weakened sense: causing great discomfort; esp. (of the weather) cold, wet, depressing.

Causing slight but persistent discomfort, anxiety, or annoyance; nagging; troublesome or irritating in a petty way.

In intensive use: = maddening, adj.

Peevish, complaining. In later use: talkative, chattering.

That exists or is present persistently and obtrusively, so as to cause irritation, worry, etc.

In weakened sense: constituting a nuisance; irritating, annoying. Now chiefly U.S. colloquial.

That makes a person mad. In trivial use: irritating, vexing.

Troublesome, annoying, interfering.

causing a nuisance; annoying, irritating.

Annoying, irritating; revolting; extremely tedious.

That constitutes a nuisance; possessing the ability to annoy, irritate, or harm.

Chattering; grumbling, complaining.

Fussy, nagging, fretful.

Stupid, annoying, objectionable; knowingly obnoxious, provocative, or disruptive. Cf. dickhead, n. 1.

Characteristic of or like a dick (dick, n.1 6). Typically of a boy or man: annoying, unpleasant, or ignorant; esp. knowingly obnoxious…

slang. Characteristic of or like a cock (cock, n.1 11); obnoxious, provocative, or otherwise annoying or contemptible. Cf. dickish, adj.