Dictionary entry

Troublesome

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Trou″ble‐some (?), a. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer.

These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton.

My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope.

Syn. — Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing; harassing; annoying; disgusting; irksome; afflictive; burdensome; tiresome; wearisome; importunate.

— Trou″ble‐some‐ly, adv. — Trou″ble‐some‐ness, n.