Troubled
/ˈtrʌbəld/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjectiveWorried, unhappy, or facing difficulties.
Extra definitions
adjective; verbWorried or emotionally distressed.
adjective; verbAffected by problems.
adjective; verbShowing difficulty or disorder.
Sentence Examples
He looked troubled.
The troubled region needs aid.
She had a troubled childhood.
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Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
“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:
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He looked ____.