adjective
definition
Causing trouble or anxiety
example
The computer has been very troublesome for me. It never works when I need to use it.
synonyms
Examples of troublesome in a Sentence
She was very troublesome when I began to write this morning.
That idea was troublesome to Carmen as well.
The process, however, is troublesome.
These latter, like the colonists in the American Far West, had to be constantly on the alert against the attacks of their troublesome neighbours, and they accordingly organized themselves in semi-military fashion.
In northern climates they are especially troublesome from July through October.
Even so, the concentration he has here will be troublesome for us.
Formaldehyde proved safer and less troublesome than corrosive sublimate, chlorine gas or sulfur dioxide.
Buying and owning a listed building was going to be too troublesome.
We might make sensible questions on your behalf or help you establish the relation with those banks where you found it troublesome.
Symantec receives about 200,000 potentially troublesome files every month from its clients worldwide.
The heel bone can become particularly troublesome causing pain in two areas.
It might encourage Blair to consider - at least consider - the virtues of a trial separation from his increasingly troublesome lover.
Outside, the Republicans and Carlists were getting troublesome, and the tone of their press vied with that of the Liberals in their attacks on the Conservative cabinet.
And she was so quiet when I plucked her from her sleep her mother didn't hear, at least at first I wonder if they've found her or her troublesome husband yet?
A troublesome increase in vaginal discharge may need assessment.
The powerful resinous odor of the newly-cut wood was said to cause troublesome diuresis in saw mill workers (Sargent 1896 ).
Nicky Summerbee was also injured at Barnsley, suffering a shoulder problem, which forced Dean Holdsworth into action despite his troublesome groin.
The Hungarians, always troublesome partners in the monarchy were equally outraged by Italy's conduct.
It is nearly 20 years since Bill Bryson first penned his deliciously witty paean to precision Troublesome Words.
The Substantial Shareholder Exemption UK incorporated (and resident) companies have always been somewhat troublesome as international holding vehicles.
The contact can also distort the mask, which can lead to troublesome leaks.
Many times these hauntings are unwanted and troublesome.
And, naturally, many machines jam, making the job even more troublesome.
You went in with a troublesome back and came out with a troublesome cough.
Even pinning these sheets to window frames could prove troublesome.
What they will find more troublesome is the claim that they should be more open to secularism.
They are an option if symptoms remain troublesome despite taking a short acting bronchodilator.
This allowed boats from the Erewash Canal, which were heading west, to avoid the often troublesome stretches of the River Trent.
Shippers were rather tired of waterside wharves, with their lack of warehouse room, and lighterage was increasingly troublesome and expensive.
The sacred college had grown especially worldly and troublesome since the time of Sixtus IV., and Leo took advantage of a plot of several of its members to poison him, not only to inflict exemplary punishments by executing one and imprisoning several others, but also to make a radical change in the college.
In the preface to the appendix containing the local arithmetic he states that, while devoting all his leisure to the invention of these abbreviations of calculation, and to examining by what methods the toil of calculation might be removed, in addition to the logarithms, rabdologia and promptuary, he had hit upon a certain tabular arithmetic, whereby the more troublesome operations of common arithmetic are performed on an abacus or chess-board, and which may be regarded as an amusement A facsimile of this document is given by Mark Napier in his Memoirs of John Napier (1834), p. 248.
In return for this compliance, the emperor delivered over to the pope his troublesome rival Arnold of Brescia, who was burned alive by Nicholas Breakspear, the only English successor of St Peter.
In view of the other points of 1 It has been suggested that Saphon, which is often rather troublesome if rendered "the north," may be a weakened form of .ib'on, a affinity between Joel and Ezekiel, this word inevitably suggests Gog and Magog, and it is difficult to see how a swarm of locusts could receive such a name, or if they came from the north could perish; as the verse puts it, in the desert between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
One of the most troublesome pests of the interior is a minute degenerate spider of the genus Ixodes, called carrapato, or bush-tick, which breeds on the ground and then creeps up the grass blades and bushes where it waits for some passing man or beast.
In order to avoid troublesome computations, which it would be necessary to recommence for every year, and of which the results differ only by a few days, chronologers generally regard the 1st of July as the commencement of the Olympic year.
To thoroughly overpower the troublesome Bit-Adini (see above, § 3, viii.), which had naturally been aided by the states west of the Euphrates, Shalmaneser II.
Summary Lupus causes troublesome symptoms rather than serious problems in most people.
The most troublesome appears to be an upset stomach.
For particularly troublesome skin, you may want to apply this powder over a light foundation for extra coverage.
Once you've located one you like, you'll have to decide how to word and present your online ad. The first dilemma is the most troublesome for many online daters; submit an ad with pictures or without?
On another troublesome note, statistically speaking, teenage runaways are on the rise, topping at over one million per year.
If in strong or rich soils it spreads from the root and becomes rank, but in light dry soils and full sun it makes neat tufts of about 8 inches, hardy, and not troublesome.
Usually these plants are not fit for garden culture, but some are troublesome weeds.
The cultivation is quite simple-placing the root-stocks in water 2 or 3 feet deep, when they will soon root in the mud; but they are apt to increase too rapidly, and may prove troublesome to get rid of.
The solid bottom will slim your figure and draw attention away from troublesome areas.
These suits come in a range of styles designed to conceal and cover troublesome areas such as the thighs, stomach and hips.
Attention will be drawn to your legs and ankles and away from your troublesome middle.
Another troublesome symptom associated with menopause is fatigue.
Some Princeton snoring treatment options are designed for very troublesome conditions including severe sleep apnea.
Snoring has a variety of causes and contributing factors, and it can be troublesome when it wakes the sleeping snorer.