troubledadj.
/ˈtrʌbld/, U.S. /ˈtrəb(ə)ld/ 1. Physically agitated; of the sea, sky, etc., stormy; of water, wine, etc., stirred up so as to diffuse the sediment, made thick or muddy, turbid. troubled waters (figurative), a state of agitation or disquiet.
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the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > qualities of liquid > cloudy or opaque
worya1225
troublea1327
troublyc1380
troubleda1425
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > agitated
wilda1250
unpeaceablea1398
troubly1398
troubleda1425
trouble1509
working1558
disquiet1587
fretful1616
ruffled1640
fretteda1854
the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > difficult or dangerous affairs
waterOE
troubled waters1632
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > instance or cause of > dangerous subject or affair
waterOE
troubled waters1632
firecracker1845
minefield1963
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > stormy > agitated
troubly1513
exagitated1659
uncalm1699
troubled1855
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [adjective] > dense or dark (of mist, fog, or weather)
thicka1000
murk1609
gross1785
greasya1825
troubled1855
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Josh. xiii. 2 The troblid flood that moistith Egipt.
1581 J. Walker in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iv. sig. F f iij It is troubled water when we mingle our workes and righteousnes with Gods.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. lvii. 20 The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast vp myre and dirt. View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 12 The Riuer Tyber [is] of a troubled and muddy colour.
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 334 Jargon... Heated to redness, and quenched in water, it becomes rifty, and troubled.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 535 The sky was dark and troubled.
1864 G. M. Musgrave Ten Days in Fr. Parsonage II. iii. 98 An inadvertent inquiry would have brought us into troubled waters.
2. Disturbed; disquieted; disordered; agitated; afflicted. Also absol.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > [adjective]
troubleda1325
troublyc1340
troublec1374
worried1559
betoiled1622
aerumnous1658
fidgety1736
fretful1737
fretted1756
tanglesome1823
awful1865
hincty1929
toey1930
to worry (oneself), be worried, sick1952
noodgy1969
a1325 Prose Psalter l. 18 [li. 17] Trubled gost is sacrifice to God.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 21 Augustine with a troubled mynde be-gan to loke up-on his felaw Alipius, and..cried: What suffir we?
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Esdras xv. 8 The innocent bloude of the troubled crieth vnto me.
1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster iii. 34 Medicine to a troubled minde.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxiii. 126 Some private partie of a troubled State.
1728 E. Haywood tr. M.-A. de Gomez Belle Assemblée (1734) II. 31 Philosophy could give his troubled Thoughts but little ease.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 127 The historian of this troubled reign.
1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay vii. 103 I wandered about the old scenes like a troubled ghost.
1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xxi She slept a troubled sleep.
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