trouble

Plural: troubles

Noun

• a source of difficulty
  • "one trouble after another delayed the job"
• an angry disturbance
  • "they had labor trouble"
• an event causing distress or pain
  • "what is the trouble?"
  • "heart trouble"
• an effort that is inconvenient
  • "I went to a lot of trouble"
  • "he won without any trouble"
• a strong feeling of anxiety
  • "he wanted to die and end his troubles"
• an unwanted pregnancy
  • "he got several girls in trouble"
• A distressing or dangerous situation.
• A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
• A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
• The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
• Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
• Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
• Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
• Difficulty in doing something.
• Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
• A malfunction.
• Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
• A fault or interruption in a stratum.
• Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
• An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy.

Verb

Verb Forms: troubled, troubling, troubles

• To cause distress or difficulty to; to worry or bother.
• move deeply
• to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
  • "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
• disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
• take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
  • "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"
• cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
• To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
• To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
• In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
• To physically afflict.
• To take pains (to do something); to bother.
• To worry; to be anxious.

Examples

• He had some trouble with the law.
• He tried not to let a difficult rack TROUBLE his focus during the game.
• He was in trouble when the rain started.
• He’s been in hospital with some heart trouble.
• I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
• I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
• It’s no trouble for me to edit it.
• My bad knee is troubling me.
• My old car has engine trouble.
• She has trouble eating.
• The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.
• The trouble was a leaking brake line.
• The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.
• the troubles in Northern Ireland
• What she said about narcissism is troubling me.

Synonyms

ail, bother, cark, difficulty, discommode, disoblige, disorder, disquiet, distract, disturb, fuss, hassle, incommode, inconvenience, inconvenience oneself, pain, perturb, problem, put out, trouble oneself, unhinge, upset, worry, 'er indoors, Idioms:, ado, afflict, affliction, aggravate, aggrieve, ailment, angst, anguish, annoy, annoyance, antagonize, anxietize, argy-bargy, ass in a sling, atray, ball and chain, bangarang, bar, barrier, bedevil, better half, bind, bobbery, boil someone's piss, bone in the throat, boss, botherate, bride, brouhaha, bucket of syrup, bug, bump in the road, bunfight, burn up, bust-up, bustle, cag, calvary, chaos, chap someone's hide, cheese off, clamour, clatter, coath, commotion, complaint, cross, cross to bear, defect, deficiency, devil, dilemma, dire straits, disease, disgruntle, disruption, distress, disturbance, doghouse, drag, drawback, dutch, egritude, encumbrance, engrieve, exasperate, faff, fault, fix, flap, flaw, foofaraw, fracas, fret, frow, frustrate, furor, geezer, get, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's Irish up, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get up, give someone the shits, grame, grate, grief, grievance, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harass, hardship, harrow, harry, harsh one's mellow, her indoors, hindrance, hitch, hobbleshaw, hole, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurdle, hurly-burly, ill health, illness, impediment, imperfection, inadequacy, indisposition, inturbidate, irk, irritate, irritation, jam, jazz, kerfuffle, kettle of fish, lady, little lady, little woman, make an effort, malady, mayhem, memsahib, merry hell, missus, molest, mommick, morbus, muddle, nark, nuisance, obstacle, obstruction, old lady, old woman, ordeal, outcry, pain in the neck, palaver, pandemonium, peccadillo, pee off, peeve, persecute, pickle, pinch, pique, piss off, plague, plight, pother, predicament, provoke, put someone's back up, quagmire, quandary, quarrel, raise someone's hackles, rankle, rend, rile, rile up, riot, roadblock, roil, rot, rowdydow, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruckus, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, rumpus, shemozzle, shindy, shortcoming, sickness, situation, smart, splatterdash, spot, spot of bother, sticky situation, sticky wicket, sting, stir, stooshie, storm, stumbling block, take great pains, tee off, test someone's patience, three-ring circus, tick off, tight spot, to-do, tomfoolery, torment, torque off, torture, trouble, trouble and strife, try one's patience, tumult, turmoil, unrest, uproar, upstir, vex, vexation, wife, wifekin, wifelet, wifeling, wifey, wind up, wring

Related Words

turbid, turbulent

Anagrams of trouble