troublesome

«troublesome» in Mova's school dictionary: Causing trouble, worry or difficulty; annoying or hard to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (troublesome, more troublesome, most troublesome)

meaning for a pupil

Causing trouble, worry or difficulty; annoying or hard to deal with. tree →

sense in the lessons

A describing word for people, animals, problems and things: a troublesome cough, a troublesome knee, a troublesome neighbour. In The Wind in the Willows Toad is a troublesome friend whose crazes worry Badger, Rat and Mole. In maths, a troublesome question is a hard one.

examples

• That troublesome cough kept me awake. tree →
• The troublesome puppy chewed my shoes. tree →
• Toad was a troublesome friend. tree →
• The last sum was the most troublesome. tree →
• Weeds are troublesome in the garden. tree →
• The troublesome wind kept blowing my kite away. tree →
• They—they—they were so—so troublesome—that I could not manage them at all. tree →

note

Adjective formed with -some (like «tiresome», «awesome»). Similar: annoying, difficult.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «troublesome» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.