troublous

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English

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Etymology

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From Old French troubleus, corresponding to trouble +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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troublous (comparative more troublous, superlative most troublous)

  1. (obsolete) Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
  2. (now archaic or literary) Troubled, confused.
  3. (now archaic or literary) Causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 1:
      the mystery, the pervasive melancholy, the vaguely troublous forecast and retrospect which possess the mind in contemplating this sequestered spot, unhallowed save by the sense of a common humanity [...]
    • 1917, Henry James, The Sense of the Past:
      The whole waited, for didn't there hang behind this troublous foreground the vast vagueness which the English themselves spoke of as "abroad"?

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