troubled

comparative more troubled · superlative most troubled

1. Anxious, worried, careworn.

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   Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

   1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056

2. Afflicted by difficulties.

   If you're southbound you shouldn't be troubled by any rain this morning.

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   The troubled Internet company announced another round of layoffs last week.

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of trouble