troublous
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/ˈtɹʌbləs/
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Definition of troublous
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
- (obsolete)Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
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adj
- (obsolete)Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
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(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–[…]”
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(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"?”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English troublous, from Anglo-Norman troublous and Middle French troubleus, corresponding to trouble + -ous.
Words you can make from troublous
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44 words- BLOTS 7 pts
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4-letter words
68 words- BLOT 6 pts
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3-letter words
33 words- BOO 5 pts
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2-letter words
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