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troublous

UK/ˈtɹʌbləs/

troublous adjective: of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.

Adjective

troublous (comparative more troublous, superlative most troublous)

  1. (obsolete) Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
  2. (archaic, literary) Troubled, confused; causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
    • 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • The troublous Day has brawled itself to rest: no lives yet lost but that of one warhorse.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)

Examples of troublous in a sentence

  • The whole waited, for didn't there hang behind this troublous foreground the vast vagueness which the English themselves spoke of as "abroad"?1917, Henry James, The Sense of the Past:
  • By and by he fell into a troublous sleep—it seemed that he was going to be stoned, and then he was in battle, and then shipwrecked in the water–[…]1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:

Forms of troublous

comparativemore troublous
superlativemost troublous

Origin of troublous

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

Words formed from troublous

Questions about troublous

What does troublous mean?
Troublous means of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
How do you use troublous in a sentence?
The whole waited, for didn't there hang behind this troublous foreground the vast vagueness which the English themselves spoke of as "abroad"?
What part of speech is troublous?
Troublous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce troublous?
Troublous is pronounced /ˈtɹʌbləs/ (UK).

Words near troublous in the dictionary

  1. troubleth
  2. troublin'
  3. troubling
  4. troublingly
  5. troublings
  6. troublous
  7. troublously
  8. troublousness
  9. troubly
  10. Troubridge
  11. Troubridges

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