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Troublous

//ˈtɹʌbləs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment. obsolete
  2. 2
    Troubled, confused. archaic, literary

    "On thother side they saw the warlike Mayd / Al in her snow-white smocke, with locks unbowned, / Threatning the point of her avenging blaed; / That with so troublous terror they were all dismayd."

  3. 3
    Causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious. archaic, literary

    "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 [...]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    full of trouble wordnet

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English troublous, from Anglo-Norman troublous and Middle French troubleus, corresponding to trouble + -ous.

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