troublesome

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
troublesome
    adj 1: difficult to deal with; "a troublesome infection"; "a
           troublesome situation"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Troublesome \Trou"ble*some\, a.
   Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
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         This troublesome world.                  --Book of
                                                  Common Prayer.
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         These troublesome disguises that we wear. --Milton.
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         My mother will never be troublesome to me. --Pope.
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   Syn: Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing; harassing; annoying;
        disgusting; irksome; afflictive; burdensome; tiresome;
        wearisome; importunate.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Trou"ble*some*ly}, adv. --
        {Trou"ble*some*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "troublesome":
      Herculean, adverse, aggravating, alarming, annoying, antagonistic,
      arduous, awkward, backbreaking, besetting, bothering, bothersome,
      burdensome, chafing, choking, clumsy, conflicting, constrictive,
      contrary, counter, counteractive, counterproductive, crosswise,
      crushing, detrimental, difficult, discommodious, disquieting,
      distressful, distressing, disturbing, effortful, exasperating,
      forced, fretting, galling, grueling, harassing, hard, hard-earned,
      hard-fought, harmful, heavy, hefty, hindering, hindersome, hostile,
      importunate, importune, in opposition, in the way, incommodious,
      inconvenient, infestive, inhibiting, inhibitive, inimical,
      interrupting, interruptive, irking, irksome, irritating, killing,
      labored, laborious, mean, miserable, not easy, obstructing,
      obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, onerous, operose, opposed,
      opposing, opposite, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestering,
      pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey,
      plaguing, provoking, punishing, repressive, restrictive, rigorous,
      sinister, stifling, strained, strangling, strenuous, stressful,
      suppressive, teasing, tiresome, toilsome, tormenting, tough,
      troubling, troublous, trying, ugly, unfavorable, unhandy, untoward,
      unwieldy, uphill, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wicked,
      worrisome, worrying, wretched

    

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