troubledadjective
uk/ˈtrʌb.əld/us/ˈtrʌb.əld/troubled adjective (HAVING DIFFICULTIES)
C1 having problems or difficulties:
The survival package involves selling off the unprofitable parts of the troubled company.
This troubled region has had more than its fair share of wars over the centuries.
In these troubled times, it's nice to hear some good news.
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- Having a baby can be kill or cure for a troubled marriage.
- My husband's always arguing with my father, and I'm the one who has to pour oil on troubled waters.
- She was a beacon of hope in troubled times.
- Your father was a very troubled man, but he's at rest now.
- The new public relations manager has the difficult task of shoring up the company's troubled image.
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Experiencing difficulties
- be
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- creek
- difficulty
- embattled
- fall into sth
- flounder
- frying pan
- leg
- on a razor edge idiom
- out of the frying pan into the fire idiom
- patch
- pickle
- pressed
- pushed
- ride
- thin
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troubled adjective (WORRIED)
worried or nervous:
He is clearly a very troubled man.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Anxious and worried
- (all) hot and bothered idiom
- -racked
- a bundle of nerves idiom
- aflutter
- agitate
- alarmed
- anxious
- apprehensive
- demented
- dread
- fuss
- get in a sweat idiom
- grim
- harassed
- haunted
- prey on sb's mind idiom
- prey on sth
- rattled
- rest easy idiom
- restive
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