troublingadjective
uk/ˈtrʌb.əl.ɪŋ/us/ˈtrʌb.əl.ɪŋ/Something that is troubling makes you worried or nervous:
Some troubling questions remain about the legal status of frozen embryos.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing anxiety and worry
- alarming
- bite
- catch up with sb
- come back to bite sb idiom
- come back/home to roost idiom
- flap
- frighten sb/sth away/off
- get/go beyond a joke idiom
- give sb the jitters idiom
- gnaw
- harass
- joke
- suspenseful
- sweat
- tense
- unnerve
- unsettling
- weigh
- weigh on sb/sth
- weigh sb down
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troublingly
adverb uk/ˈtrʌb.əl.ɪŋ.li/us/ˈtrʌb.əl.ɪŋ.li/