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Troubling   /trˈəbəlɪŋ/  /trˈəblɪŋ/   Listen
Troubling

adjective
1.
Causing distress or worry or anxiety.  Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, worrisome, worrying.  "Lived in heroic if something distressful isolation" , "A disturbing amount of crime" , "A revelation that was most perturbing" , "A new and troubling thought" , "In a particularly worrisome predicament" , "A worrying situation" , "A worrying time"



Trouble

verb
(past & past part. troubled; pres. part. troubling)
1.
Move deeply.  Synonyms: disturb, upset.  "A troubling thought"
2.
To cause inconvenience or discomfort to.  Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out.
3.
Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.  Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, unhinge.
4.
Take the trouble to do something; concern oneself.  Synonyms: bother, inconvenience oneself, trouble oneself.  "Don't bother, please"
5.
Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed.  Synonyms: ail, pain.



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"Troubling" Quotes from Famous Books



... appreciative of the security of his position. At last he became enterprising and bold. He would, he decided, settle this business forthwith, one way or the other. He was tired of all this crawling. He set out in the morning sunshine, gun in hand, scarcely troubling to walk softly. He went round the refreshment shed without finding any one, and then through the trees towards the flying-machine. He came upon the bird-faced man sitting on the ground with his back against a tree, bent up over his folded arms, sleeping, ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... DEAR SIR WALTER,—Can you pardon me for thus troubling you, in order to have my curiosity satisfied about our old friend Fountainhall, whose work I gave you in July last. I hope you received the remainder of the Manuscript in October from my agent, Mr. Macbean. If you can spare time to say, in a single line, what is doing ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder

... and sell his jewels for more than they cost him; all things, the sage observance of which gave him as much wisdom as he had need of to do business comfortably and pleasantly. And so he did, without troubling anyone else. And watching this good little man ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac

... indignity offered to her house; however, she suppressed her temper, and contented herself with saying, "Very good quality frequented it, she thanked heaven!" "Don't tell me," cries the other, "of quality! I believe I know more of people of quality than such as you.—But, prithee, without troubling me with any of your impertinence, do tell me what I can have for supper; for, though I cannot eat horse-flesh, I am really hungry." "Why, truly, madam," answered the landlady, "you could not take ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding

... are, Baron," he said, as he came up to his friend. "I find there is something else I must do, so do you mind holding this bag for a few minutes? If you will walk up and down in front of the refreshment-rooms here, I'll find you more easily. Is it troubling you ...
— The Lunatic at Large • J. Storer Clouston


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