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Definition of Troubling
1. Adjective. Causing distress or worry or anxiety. "A worrying time"
Similar to: Heavy
Derivative terms: Distressfulness
Definition of Troubling
1. Adjective. distressing, worrying ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of trouble) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Troubling
1. trouble [v] - See also: trouble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Troubling
Literary usage of Troubling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"... the Mover of actions, distributing to each man, as I judge meet" CHAPTER XLIV
Of not troubling ourselves about outward things "My Son, in many things it ..."
2. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER XLIV Of not troubling ourselves about outward things "MY Son, in many
things it behoveth thee to be ignorant, and to esteem thyself as one dead upon ..."
3. Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley (1855)
"There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the wear; ... And, accordingly,
neither do " the wicked" here " cease from troubling," ncr can " the weary ..."
4. Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson (1874)
"Does not this " troubling " of the water look like the irregular flow of the
fountain just described ? And as the Sheep gate seems to have been situated not ..."
5. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"\av. that they n;licr my Lord Protector in England, or you but for a Year, and
now are they expired ; and br the sooner dispatched, without troubling are ..."
6. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... the Discerner of the thoughts, the Mover of actions, distributing to each man,
as I judge meet" CHAPTER XLIV Of not troubling ourselves about outward ..."
7. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"THE FENIAN FIEND troubling THE CANADIAN WATERS. person in a tall hat). They evidently
consider me—who have been a consistent, ..."
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