1. Characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
   "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers"; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"
    
2. Characterized by unrest, disorder or insubordination
   "these troubled areas";
   - disruptive, riotous, tumultuous, turbulent

1. Cause profound worry; make to feel uncomfortable or anxious
   "A troubling thought";
   - disturb, upset
    
2. Cause inconvenience or discomfort to
   "Sorry to trouble you, but …";
   - put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode [archaic], incommode [archaic], bother
    
3. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
   "She was rather troubled by the news that her father was seriously ill";
   - perturb, unhinge, disquiet, cark [archaic], distract, disorder
    
4. Make an effort or take pains to do something
   "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday";
   - trouble oneself, bother, inconvenience oneself
    
5. Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
   "The chronic back pain troubled him for years";
   - ail, pain

See also: annoyed, anxious, buffeted, careful [archaic], care-laden, clouded, concerned, cut up [informal], disquieted, distressed, disturbed, embattled, fraught, hagridden, hag-ridden, harassed, hard put, hard-pressed, harried, haunted, heavy-laden, in a bad way, mothy, nervous, pestered, queasy, storm-tossed, stressed, struggling, suffering, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost, tormented, troublous [archaic], uneasy, unquiet, upset, vexed, worried

Type of: affect, bear on, bear upon, hurt, impact, impress, move, reach, strain, strike, strive

Antonym: untroubled

Encyclopedia: Trouble