troubled

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌbl̩d/

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Adjective

troubled (comparative more troubled, superlative most troubled)

1. anxious, worried, careworn.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:

     Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

2. Afflicted by difficulties.

   The troubled Internet company announced another round of layoffs last week.

Derived terms

• cast oil on troubled waters
• fish in troubled waters
• pour oil on troubled waters
• troubled asset
• troubled waters

 

Translations

worried, anxious

• Bulgarian: неспокоен (bg) (nespokoen), разтревожен (bg) (raztrevožen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擔心／担心 (zh) (dānxīn)

• Esperanto: maltrankvila (eo), ĝenita
• German: gestört (de), besorgt (de)
• Hindi: परेशान (hi) (pareśān)
• Japanese: 心配した (ja) (しんぱいした, shinpai shita)
• Latin: sollicitus (la)
• Russian: обеспоко́енный (ru) (obespokójennyj), встрево́женный (ru) (vstrevóžennyj)
• Spanish: afligido (es)

Verb

troubled

1. simple past and past participle of trouble