TROUBLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does troubling mean? 

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

1. causing distress or worry or anxiety

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROUBLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing distress or worry or anxiety

Synonyms:

distressful; distressing; disturbing; perturbing; troubling; worrisome; worrying

Context example:

a worrying time

Similar:

heavy (marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness)

 Context examples 

This is troubling, especially when the consequences for the environment and human health remain largely unknown.

(Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

The next morning Dummling took the goose under his arm and set out, without troubling himself about the three girls who were hanging on to it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Friends have been warm and welcoming, and if you have had anything troubling you, any one of them would be willing to give you their full attention to discuss your feelings and options.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The researchers tested the material using two of the most troubling forms of antibiotic-resistant bacteria: MRSA and Pseudomonas, with the collaboration of Eric Brown of McMaster's Institute for Infectious Disease Research.

(Scientists Create Superbug-Resistant Self-Cleaning Surface, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Those high rates make worse already troubling numbers: More than 15 million Americans, and many more worldwide, suffer from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

(Study links psoriasis treatment and improvement in heart artery disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For me it was only a pleasure outing, but I could see, as we drew near the house, that Jim was troubling in his mind lest we should find that things were amiss.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The captain, who had so long been a cause of so much discomfort, was gone where the wicked cease from troubling.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have other complaints to make upon this vexatious occasion; but I forbear troubling myself or you any further.

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

With a resigned air and a somewhat weary smile, Holmes begged the beautiful intruder to take a seat, and to inform us what it was that was troubling her.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You had better let him go. He will not thank you for troubling him.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)