TROUBLESOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does troublesome mean? 

• TROUBLESOME (adjective)
  The adjective TROUBLESOME has 1 sense:

1. causing difficulty or annoyance

  Familiarity information: TROUBLESOME used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROUBLESOME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing difficulty or annoyance

Context example:

a troublesome situation

Similar:

difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)

Derivation:

troublesomeness (a difficulty that causes anxiety)

 Context examples 

On the 9th day of June, 1709, I arrived at Nangasac, after a very long and troublesome journey.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Bless me! how troublesome they are sometimes.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

One day the child was very troublesome, and the mother could not quiet it, do what she would.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And if you find them troublesome, you must send them home again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was very strange that he should come to Longbourn instead of to Lucas Lodge; it was also very inconvenient and exceedingly troublesome.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I smoke on srub and water, myself, said Mr. Omer, taking up his glass, because it's considered softening to the passages, by which this troublesome breath of mine gets into action.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Troublesome, careless child! and what are you doing now?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Your annual full moon in Aries was last October 13, 2019, and was troublesome, so last October could have brought twists and turns you did not expect, causing stress.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You have received your rent, and he is not a troublesome lodger, though he is certainly an unusual one.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Access to the subject's vasculature is troublesome or formidable.

(Difficult Vascular Access, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)