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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. difficult to deal with;
- Example: "a troublesome infection"
- Example: "a troublesome situation"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Troublesome \Trou"ble*some\, a. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. [1913 Webster] This troublesome world. --Book of Common Prayer. [1913 Webster] These troublesome disguises that we wear. --Milton. [1913 Webster] My mother will never be troublesome to me. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Syn: Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing; harassing; annoying; disgusting; irksome; afflictive; burdensome; tiresome; wearisome; importunate. [1913 Webster] -- Trou"ble*some*ly, adv. -- Trou"ble*some*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

troublesome adj 1: difficult to deal with; "a troublesome infection"; "a troublesome situation"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

121 Moby Thesaurus words for "troublesome": Herculean, adverse, aggravating, alarming, annoying, antagonistic, arduous, awkward, backbreaking, besetting, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, chafing, choking, clumsy, conflicting, constrictive, contrary, counter, counteractive, counterproductive, crosswise, crushing, detrimental, difficult, discommodious, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, effortful, exasperating, forced, fretting, galling, grueling, harassing, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harmful, heavy, hefty, hindering, hindersome, hostile, importunate, importune, in opposition, in the way, incommodious, inconvenient, infestive, inhibiting, inhibitive, inimical, interrupting, interruptive, irking, irksome, irritating, killing, labored, laborious, mean, miserable, not easy, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, onerous, operose, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, punishing, repressive, restrictive, rigorous, sinister, stifling, strained, strangling, strenuous, stressful, suppressive, teasing, tiresome, toilsome, tormenting, tough, troubling, troublous, trying, ugly, unfavorable, unhandy, untoward, unwieldy, uphill, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wicked, worrisome, worrying, wretched