trouble

Meaning

Noun

1. A distressing or dangerous situation.
2. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
3. A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
4. The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
5. Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
6. Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
7. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
8. Difficulty in doing something.
9. Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
10. A malfunction.
11. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
12. A fault or interruption in a stratum.
13. (slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
14. (slang) An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy.

Verb

1. To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
2. To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
3. In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
4. To physically afflict.
5. To take pains to do something; to bother.
6. To worry; to be anxious.

Synonyms

difficulty

worry

bother

distress

problem

disturb

annoy

annoyance

misfortune

hardship

inconvenience

affliction

pain

suffering

harass

torment

vex

vexation

disturbance

hassle

anxiety

tease

effort

pester

quarrel

afflict

sorrow

irritate

upset

calamity

fuss

agitate

toil

obstacle

pains

care

dispute

disquiet

labour

grief

molest

concern

labor

harm

perturb

burden

nuisance

disorder

difficulties

ado

misery

disaster

riot

snag

agitation

distract

confusion

restlessness

alarm

puzzle

plague

troublesome

exertion

anguish

hitch

hinder

danger

❗

ruffle

hardships

bewilder

stir

disadvantage

tire

disagreement

incident

incommode

uneasiness

discommode

unrest

agony

ail

mischief

fatigue

adversity

bustle

woe

put out

chagrin

fight

complaint

matter

civil disturbance

hindrance

fix

injure

accident

unhinge

discomfort

excite

perplexity

harassment

tribulation

complications

stir up

bug

🐛

struggle

hamper

hurt

illness

perplex

cares

cark

molestation

embarrass

beset

embarrassment

nag

argument

botheration

inconvenient

unhappiness

encumber

unpleasantness

attempt

uproar

injury

disease

weary

😩

worries

wretchedness

pinch

irk

oppress

issue

harrass

disquietude

friction

complication

Hindrance

question

❓

confuse

drawback

conflict

pother

fluster

endeavour

punish

bad luck

pest

scrape

heaviness

crisis

handling

intricacy

dismay

arouse

work

working

perturbation

worriment

difficult

provoke

disoblige

service

hob

striving

haunt

shame

give trouble

inconvenience oneself

joke

🤣

hot water

attention

arduousness

entanglement

dissension

headache

privation

hardness

fret

barrier

predicament

moil

disarrange

trouble oneself

fighting

disarray

ailment

solicitude

troublesomeness

coil

riddle

malfunction

turmoil

case

travail

unease

baffle

badger

🦡

impose upon

infest

drag

strife

annoying

unsettle

inflict

strain

commotion

exhaustion

discompose

importunity

defect

faze

hound

disconcert

discord

mischance

sadness

interrupt

tangle

stoppage

storm

straiten

straits

stymie

stymy

support

swearwords

sympathy

take pains

teasing

tieback

tight

torture

tragedy

traverse

trepidation

trespass

tribulations

troubleshoot

try

turbid

turbulence

turn

turn on

unluckiness

unnerve

unwieldiness

uprising

urgent

‼️

violate

want

war

warfare

weariness

weigh

weigh down

welter

while

wrongdoing

bad omen

be depressed

donkeywork

embarassment

grate on

hard time

jar on

kneading-trough

make trouble

nisus

press hard

put pressure on

tight corner

treat badly

tsuris

render turbid

evil influence

great trouble

wind and waves

rough seas

backbreaking exertions

time and effort

later trouble

affiction

bullback

abuse

affection

depression

fear

😨

violence

weight

make anxious

bovver

awkward situation

cause anxiety

give trouble to

cause difficulties

disavantage

cause the inconvenience of

render muddy

be at pains

eat on

retarding force

become heavy

buzz around

abash

care worry

ache

addle

affair

aggrieve

alienate

amaze

anger

💢

anxious

arduous

astonish

astound

avoid

bad

👎

bad news

balk

bane

baulk

bedevil

be difficult

bedlam

bemuse

bind

blues

blunder

bore

bored

breakdown

break down

bustle about

carefulness

cause trouble

challenge

chance

🎲

circumstances

coincidence

complexify

complexity

complicacy

complicate

concernment

conk

consternation

consume

contingency

contravene

conundrum

crimp

critical

‼️

cross

crucify

cumber

cumbersomeness

curse

damage

degradation

dejection

dependence

derange

despair

despoil

despondence

despondency

destiny

devour

diligence

din

discomfit

discommodity

dishonor

disputes

dissent

distressed

disturber

doubt

duress

edgy

efforts

emergent

encroach upon

encumbrance

endeavor

ennui

entrench

escape

event

evil

exasperate

exhaust

failure

fate

fault

ferment

fidget

flurry

flutter

foolery

fortuity

fracas

gall

get

gloom

gloominess

gnaw at

good for nothing

good-for-nothing

gravel

handicap

hard

hard work

harry

heavy

heckle

humiliate

humiliation

ill-treat

impairment

imperative

impinge

implication

impropriety

inaction

incite

incommodiousness

indisposition

inexpedience

infestation

infract

infringe

inquietude

insult

interfere with

intractableness

intrigue

invocation

involvement

jam

ken

kindness

kink

knead

laborious

lament

lassitude

load

luck

🍀

malady

malaise

maltreat

mask

😷

melancholy

mess

mind

missing

mistreat

mortify

muddy

nervousness

nevermind

niggle

noise

objections

object to

obligation

obstruct

obstructer

obstruction

obstructive

occurrence

offend

ordeal

outbreak

overwhelm

painstaking

palaver

panic

peeve

peevish

penalty

peripeteia

peripetia

persecute

persecution

pickle

plight

plot

preventative

problems

punishment

racket

ravage

reasons

regret

resistance

resistor

retribution

reverse

rigor

rouse

row

rowdiness

rub

ruction

ruin

rumpus

sadden

scabrousness

scandal

scapegrace

scrimmage

sedition

serious

severity

slight

slur

smite

snarl

soreness

sorrowfulness

static

Translations

difficulté

problème

Schwierigkeit

Mühe

problema

peine

déranger

Sorge

molestar

ennui

Hyphenated as

trou‧ble

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɹʌb(ə)l/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: troublen

Inherited from Middle English: truble

In summary

Verb is from Middle English troublen, trublen, turblen, troblen, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English truble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.

Sentences

Had our instruments permitted it , we might have been able to see the trouble way back when .

Giles and Dawn both have trouble sleeping and go for a snack .