troublous

English

Etymology

From Old French troubleus, corresponding to trouble +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌbləs/

Adjective

troublous (comparative more troublous, superlative most troublous)

(obsolete) Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
(now archaic or literary) Troubled, confused.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  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.
- 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):
  The troublous Day has brawled itself to rest: no lives yet lost but that of one warhorse.
- 1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
  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– […]
(now archaic or literary) Causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 1:
  the mystery, the pervasive melancholy, the vaguely troublous forecast and retrospect which possess the mind in contemplating this sequestered spot, unhallowed save by the sense of a common humanity [...]
- 1917, Henry James, The Sense of the Past:
  The whole waited, for didn't there hang behind this troublous foreground the vast vagueness which the English themselves spoke of as "abroad"?

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