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TROUBLOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does troublous mean?
• TROUBLOUS (adjective)
The adjective TROUBLOUS has 1 sense:
1. full of trouble
Familiarity information: TROUBLOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Full of trouble
Context example:
these are troublous times
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Derivation:
trouble (a source of difficulty)
trouble (an event causing distress or pain)
Context examples
To outsiders the five energetic women seemed to rule the house, and so they did in many things, but the quiet scholar, sitting among his books, was still the head of the family, the household conscience, anchor, and comforter, for to him the busy, anxious women always turned in troublous times, finding him, in the truest sense of those sacred words, husband and father.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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