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- pronunciation:
- truh
b
 l
sm
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
causing anxiety, worry, or bother.
Her most troublesome student was expelled for defacing school property.- synonyms:
- bothersome, distressing, disturbing, worrisome
- antonyms:
- innocuous, unproblematic
- similar words:
- annoying, difficult, hard, irksome, irritating, nagging, pesky, troubling, trying, vexing, weighty
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| definition 2: |
difficult; burdensome; laborious.
Cleaning out the basement after the flooding was a troublesome chore.- synonyms:
- burdensome, difficult, hard, laborious, tough
- antonyms:
- easy, simple, unproblematic
- similar words:
- arduous, cumbersome, inconvenient, knotty, onerous, strenuous, tedious, thorny, unpleasant, uphill
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| related words: |
hard, painful, tight, tiresome, ugly |
adverb + (adj.)troublesome
bit, doubly, equally, especially, ethically, extremely, increasingly, less, more, most, particularly, politically, possibly, potentially
(adj.)troublesome
+ adverb
fortunately, socially
(adj.)troublesome
+ noun
array,
aspect,
bacterium,
behavior,
creek,
dispute,
draft,
implication,
insect,
invader,
issue,
one,
passage,
pest,
priest,
prisoner,
problem,
regime,
signal,
situation,
skeptic,
symptom,
tenant,
weather,
weed
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The word troublesome
contains the following part:
-some1
Old English
adjective-forming suffix
that means characterized by, tending to
  Example words:
cumbersome, adventuresome, tiresome, awesome, fearsome, handsome, irksome, bothersome, blithesome, gruesome, loathsome, lonesome, meddlesome, quarrelsome, toothsome, troublesome, toilsome, lissome, lightsome1, lithesome, noisome, mettlesome, unwholesome, venturesome, wearisome, winsome, wholesome
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