troublous

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈtɹʌbləs/ (UK)

Definition of troublous

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (obsolete)Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
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adj

  1. (obsolete)Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
  2. (archaic, literary)Troubled, confused.
    “On thother side they saw the warlike Mayd / Al in her snow-white smocke, with locks unbowned, / Threatning the point of her avenging blaed; / That with so troublous terror they were all dismayd.”
    “The troublous Day has brawled itself to rest: no lives yet lost but that of one warhorse.”
    “By and by he fell into a troublous sleep—it seemed that he was going to be stoned, and then he was in battle, and then shipwrecked in the water–[…]”
  3. (archaic, literary)Causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
    “the mystery, the pervasive melancholy, the vaguely troublous forecast and retrospect which possess the mind in contemplating this sequestered spot, unhallowed save by the sense of a common humanity [...]”
    “The whole waited, for didn't there hang behind this troublous foreground the vast vagueness which the English themselves spoke of as "abroad"?”

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English troublous, from Anglo-Norman troublous and Middle French troubleus, corresponding to trouble + -ous.

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