troubled

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 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, 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.

Translations

worried, anxious

Bulgarian: неспокоен (bg) (nespokoen), разтревожен (bg) (raztrevožen) Chinese: Mandarin: 擔心／担心 (zh) (dānxīn) 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 Russian: обеспоко́енный (ru) (obespokójennyj), встрево́женный (ru) (vstrevóžennyj)

Verb

troubled

1. simple past tense and past participle of trouble