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Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

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  1. a. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
  2. adj. causing difficulty or annoyance
  3. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing; harassing; annoying; disgusting; irksome; afflictive; burdensome; tiresome; wearisome; importunate. -- Trou"ble*some*ly, adv. -- Trou"ble*some*ness, n.
  4. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer.These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton.My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope.
  5. j:100 s. difficult to deal with