TROUBLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does troubled mean? 

• TROUBLED (adjective)
  The adjective TROUBLED has 2 senses:

1. characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need

2. characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination

  Familiarity information: TROUBLED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROUBLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need

Context example:

troubled teenagers

Similar:

distressed; hard-pressed; hard put; in a bad way (facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty)

troublous (full of trouble)

suffering (troubled by pain or loss)

struggling (engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity)

distressed; stressed (suffering severe physical strain or distress)

mothy (infested with moths)

haunted (showing emotional affliction or disquiet)

hag-ridden; hagridden; tormented (tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears)

fraught (marked by distress)

embattled ((of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict)

disquieted; distressed; disturbed; upset; worried (afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief)

clouded (made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance)

care-laden; heavy-laden (burdened by cares)

careful (full of cares or anxiety)

buffeted; storm-tossed; tempest-swept; tempest-tossed; tempest-tost (pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities)

anxious; nervous; queasy; uneasy; unquiet (causing or fraught with or showing anxiety)

annoyed; harassed; harried; pestered; vexed (troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances)

Also:

unquiet (characterized by unrest or disorder)

concerned (feeling or showing worry or solicitude)

Antonym:

untroubled (not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination

Synonyms:

disruptive; riotous; troubled; tumultuous; turbulent

Context example:

a turbulent and unruly childhood

Similar:

unquiet (characterized by unrest or disorder)

 Context examples 

Now it occurred to him that she was doing what she was ashamed to own, and it troubled him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was easy to make my further arrangements; for I was troubled with no inquiries—no surmises.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then, seeing the look of amazement on our faces, she said, turning from one to the other with a troubled look:—What have I said? What have I done?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She was looking at him in an earnest and troubled way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Had the Grants been at home I would not have troubled you, but you are now the only one I can apply to for the truth, his sisters not being within my reach.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I smiled because he smiled, but I was a little troubled in my mind, too.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Kirwin regarded me with a troubled countenance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The master-shipman looked at the knight with a troubled face.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you are troubled by a fear, a past episode, or a dependence on a substance, as three examples, seek help.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Then the soldier did not know how to earn a living, went away greatly troubled, and walked the whole day, until in the evening he entered a forest.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)