'Trouble' definitions:
Definition of 'trouble'
(from WordNet)
noun
A source of difficulty; "one trouble after another delayed the job"; "what's the problem?" [syn: trouble, problem]
noun
An angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss, trouble, bother, hassle]
noun
An event causing distress or pain; "what is the trouble?"; "heart trouble"
noun
An effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty" [syn: trouble, difficulty]
noun
A strong feeling of anxiety; "his worry over the prospect of being fired"; "it is not work but worry that kills"; "he wanted to die and end his troubles" [syn: worry, trouble]
noun
An unwanted pregnancy; "he got several girls in trouble"
verb
verb
To cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..." [syn: trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother]
verb
Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill" [syn: perturb, unhinge, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorder]
verb
Take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't bother, please" [syn: trouble oneself, trouble, bother, inconvenience oneself]
verb
Definition of 'Trouble'
From: GCIDE
- Trouble \Trou"ble\, a. Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] "With full trouble cheer." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trouble'
From: GCIDE
- Trouble \Trou"ble\, n. [F. trouble, OF. troble, truble. See Trouble, v. t.]
- 1. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity. [1913 Webster]
- Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum. [1913 Webster]
- To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. [Colloq.]
- To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience. [1913 Webster]
- She never took the trouble to close them. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Affliction; disturbance; perplexity; annoyance; molestation; vexation; inconvenience; calamity; misfortune; adversity; embarrassment; anxiety; sorrow; misery. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trouble'
From: GCIDE
- Trouble \Trou"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Troubled; p. pr. & vb. n. Troubling.] [F. troubler, OF. trobler, trubler, tourbler,fr. (assumed) LL. turbulare, L. turbare to disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder, tumult, crowd; akin to Gr. ?, and perhaps to E. thorp; cf. Skr. tvar, tur,o hasten. Cf. Turbid.]
- 1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate. [1913 Webster]
- An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. --John v. 4. [1913 Webster]
- God looking forth will trouble all his host. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex. [1913 Webster]
- Now is my soul troubled. --John xii. 27. [1913 Webster]
- Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass; annoy; tease; vex; molest. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'trouble'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse a privilege,
- ado,
- adverse circumstances,
- adversity,
- afflict,
- affliction,
- aggravate,
- aggravation,
- agitate,
- agitation,
- ail,
- ailment,
- alarm,
- all-overs,
- angst,
- anguish,
- annoy,
- annoyance,
- anxiety,
- anxiety hysteria,
- anxiety neurosis,
- anxious bench,
- anxious concern,
- anxious seat,
- anxiousness,
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- awkwardness,
- bad news,
- be concerned,
- be the matter,
- beat,
- beat up,
- bedevilment,
- beset,
- besetment,
- bind,
- bitter cup,
- bitter draft,
- bitter draught,
- bitter pill,
- blight,
- bore,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bothersomeness,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- bug,
- bummer,
- burden,
- burden of care,
- burdening,
- burthen,
- bustle,
- can of worms,
- cankerworm of care,
- care,
- cargo,
- charge,
- charging,
- churn,
- churn up,
- clumsiness,
- commotion,
- complaint,
- complicate matters,
- concern,
- concernment,
- convulse,
- crashing bore,
- cross,
- crown of thorns,
- cumbrance,
- curse,
- deadweight,
- defect,
- demand,
- destroy,
- devilment,
- difficulties,
- difficulty,
- disability,
- disaccommodate,
- disadvantage,
- disarrange,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- discomfort,
- discommode,
- discommodity,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- discord,
- discountenance,
- disease,
- disoblige,
- disorder,
- dispute,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- dissatisfaction,
- distract,
- distress,
- disturb,
- disturbance,
- dogging,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- downer,
- drag,
- dread,
- dustup,
- Dutch,
- effort,
- elbow grease,
- electrify,
- embarrassment,
- embroil,
- embroilment,
- encroach upon,
- encumber,
- encumbrance,
- endeavor,
- energy,
- evil,
- exaction,
- exasperate,
- exasperation,
- excite,
- exertion,
- fear,
- ferment,
- fight,
- fighting,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- foofaraw,
- foreboding,
- forebodingness,
- fracas,
- frazzle,
- free-for-all,
- freight,
- freighting,
- fret,
- fuss,
- gall,
- gall and wormwood,
- give concern,
- great ado,
- grief,
- grievance,
- grieve,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- harass,
- harassment,
- hard knocks,
- hard life,
- hard lot,
- hard pull,
- hardcase,
- hardship,
- harm,
- harry,
- harrying,
- hassle,
- haunt,
- headache,
- heckler,
- hector,
- helter-skelter,
- hot water,
- hounding,
- hubbub,
- illness,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- impose,
- impose on,
- impose upon,
- imposing an onus,
- imposition,
- in a mess,
- in a pickle,
- in a predicament,
- in a scrape,
- in trouble,
- incommode,
- incommodity,
- inconsiderateness,
- inconvenience,
- inconveniency,
- inconvenientness,
- infliction,
- inquietude,
- intrude,
- irk,
- irritate,
- irritation,
- jar,
- jolt,
- laying on,
- load,
- load with care,
- loading,
- loading down,
- long pull,
- lumber,
- make free with,
- malaise,
- matter,
- melee,
- might and main,
- misgiving,
- molestation,
- muscle,
- nag,
- nerve and sinew,
- nervous strain,
- nervous tension,
- nervousness,
- nettle,
- nudnik,
- nuisance,
- obtrude upon,
- obtrusiveness,
- on the spot,
- onus,
- oppression,
- outbreak,
- overanxiety,
- overstep,
- pack,
- pack of troubles,
- paddle,
- pain,
- pains,
- peck of troubles,
- pell-mell,
- penalty,
- perplex,
- persecution,
- perturb,
- perturbate,
- perturbation,
- pest,
- pester,
- pins and needles,
- plague,
- plight,
- pother,
- predicament,
- pressure,
- presume on,
- presume upon,
- presumptuousness,
- problem,
- provoke,
- psych,
- pucker,
- put about,
- put out,
- put to inconvenience,
- put to it,
- put to trouble,
- puzzle,
- racket,
- rampage,
- rebellion,
- revolt,
- rigor,
- rile,
- riot,
- ripple,
- rock,
- roil,
- rough-and-tumble,
- roughen,
- roughhouse,
- row,
- rowel,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- ruffle,
- rumple,
- rumpus,
- scramble,
- sea of troubles,
- shake,
- shake up,
- shindy,
- shock,
- sickness,
- skirmish,
- solicitude,
- sorrow,
- spook,
- stagger,
- stew,
- stir,
- stir up,
- strain,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- strife,
- suffering,
- suspense,
- swirl,
- take a liberty,
- take liberties,
- take pains,
- tasking,
- taxing,
- tension,
- thank,
- thorn,
- throw,
- throw into confusion,
- to-do,
- torment,
- tormenter,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- troubles,
- troublesomeness,
- try,
- tumult,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- uneasiness,
- unhandiness,
- unpleasantness,
- unquietness,
- unrest,
- unsettle,
- unwarranted demand,
- unwieldiness,
- uprising,
- uproar,
- upset,
- vale of tears,
- vex,
- vexation,
- vexatiousness,
- vicissitude,
- waters of bitterness,
- weigh down,
- weight,
- weighting,
- while,
- whip,
- whip up,
- whisk,
- white elephant,
- woe,
- work up,
- worriment,
- worry,
- zeal