troubled
Adjective
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Characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need (synset 302464331)
"troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers"also:similar to:
- annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered, vexed - troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
- anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet - causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
- buffeted, storm-tossed, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost - pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
- careful - full of cares or anxiety
- care-laden, heavy-laden - burdened by cares
- clouded - made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance
- disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset, worried - afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- distressed, hard put, hard-pressed, in a bad way - facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- embattled - (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict
- fraught - marked by distress
- hag-ridden, hagridden, tormented - tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears
- haunted - showing emotional affliction or disquiet
- mothy - infested with moths
- distressed, stressed - suffering severe physical strain or distress
- struggling - engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity
- suffering - troubled by pain or loss
- troublous - full of trouble
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Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination (synset 301930119)
"effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"similar to: unquiet - characterized by unrest or disorder
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