English > troubled: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need. |
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| Examples | - "troubled areas"
- "fell into a troubled sleep"
- "a troubled expression"
- "troubled teenagers"
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| Narrower | annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered, vexed | Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances |
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| anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet | Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety |
| buffeted, storm-tossed, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost, tempest-swept | pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities |
| care-laden, heavy-laden | burdened by cares |
| careful | Full of cares or anxiety |
| clouded | made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance |
| disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset, worried | Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief |
| distressed, hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way | facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty |
| embattled | (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict |
| fraught | marked by distress |
| hag-ridden, hagridden, tormented | tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears |
| haunted | showing emotional affliction or disquiet |
| mothy | infested with moths |
| stressed, distressed | Suffering severe physical strain or distress |
| struggling | Engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity |
| suffering | Troubled by pain or loss |
| troublous | Full of trouble |
| See also | concerned | Feeling or showing worry or solicitude |
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| unquiet | Characterized by unrest or disorder |
| Opposite | untroubled | not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress |
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| Spanish | agitado, turbulento |
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