troublesomeadjective
uk/ˈtrʌb.əl.səm/us/ˈtrʌb.əl.səm/C2 causing a lot of problems for someone:
Her hip has been troublesome for quite a while, and she'll probably need surgery on it.
The negotiations have proven more troublesome than any of us expected.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dangerous and harmful
- adverse
- apocalyptic
- biohazard
- damaging
- deleterious
- do more harm than good idiom
- favour
- forbidding
- gnarly
- harm
- harmful
- kiss
- negative
- not do sb any favours idiom
- penal
- pernicious
- rogue
- ruinous
- self-destruct
- toxic
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