trouble

== English == === Etymology === Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb. === Pronunciation === enPR: trŭbʹəl; IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌb.əl/, [ˈtɹʌb.ɫ̩] (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtɹab.əl/, [ˈtɹab.ɫ̩] Hyphenation: trou‧ble Rhymes: -ʌbəl === Noun === trouble (countable and uncountable, plural troubles) A distressing or dangerous situation. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation. A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation. The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet. Synonyms: anguish, torment; see also Thesaurus:distress Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming. Synonyms: pain in the neck; see also Thesaurus:defect, Thesaurus:hindrance, Thesaurus:nuisance Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance. Synonyms: palaver, turmoil; see also Thesaurus:commotion Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required. Difficulty in doing something. Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body. Synonyms: affliction, malady; see also Thesaurus:disease A malfunction. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum. (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wife (slang, dated) An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Collocations ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Jersey Dutch: tröbel ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words. === Verb === trouble (third-person singular simple present troubles, present participle troubling, simple past and past participle troubled) (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water). Synonyms: inturbidate, muddle, roil, stir (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed. Synonyms: distress, torment; see also Thesaurus:vex (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience. Synonyms: discommode, hassle, incommode; see also Thesaurus:annoy (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother. Synonyms: make an effort, take great pains (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious. Synonyms: angst, anxietize, cark, fret ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== turbid turbulent ==== Descendants ==== → Jersey Dutch: tröble ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “trouble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “trouble”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === -buterol, Boulter, boulter == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tʁubl/ === Etymology 1 === Deverbal from troubler or from Old French troble. ==== Noun ==== trouble m (plural troubles) trouble fauteur de troubles ― troublemaker (medicine, psychiatry) disorder trouble bipolaire ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) trouble de la personnalité ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) trouble de l'érection ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) trouble de l'humeur ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) trouble du sommeil ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) trouble mental ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) trouble obsessionnel compulsif ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) trouble psychiatrique ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) trouble psychique ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) ===== Descendants ===== → German: Trubel === Etymology 2 === Inherited from Old French troble, probably from a Vulgar Latin *turbulus (with metathesis), itself perhaps an alteration of Latin turbidus with influence from turbulentus; cf. also turbula. Compare Catalan tèrbol, Romanian tulbure. ==== Adjective ==== trouble (plural troubles) (of a liquid) murky, turbid, muddy, thick, clouded, cloudy; not clear ===== Derived terms ===== pêcher en eau trouble === Etymology 3 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== trouble inflection of troubler: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “trouble”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Old French troble, metathetic form of torble, from Late Latin *turbulus; compare turble. ==== Alternative forms ==== troble, trowble, truble trobel, trobelle, trobul, troubel, troubill, troubul, troubull, troubulle, trowbel, trowbill, trowbull, trubble (Late Middle English) troubull (Cheshire); trubbyl (Norfolk); trobil (Nottinghamshire) ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈtruːblə/, /ˈtrublə/, /ˈtruːbəl/, /ˈtrubəl/ ==== Adjective ==== trouble (comparative troublere) (usually of liquids) Murky, muddy, turbid, opaque. (usually of weather) Turbulent, stormy, raging. Confused, muddled; lacking coherence. Troubled; beset by emotion (especially worry or remorse) ===== Related terms ===== ===== References ===== “trǒuble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. ==== Noun ==== trouble (plural troubles) (Late Middle English) A hardship, disturbance, or calamity; something difficult or disruptive: An affliction or torment; an injurious event. Political unrest, conflict, or dissension. Disquiet, worry; mental unease. Turbulence, tempestuousness (of waves) (rare) A challenge regarding property rights. ===== Descendants ===== English: trouble→ Jersey Dutch: tröbel Middle Scots: trubill, truble Scots: trouble, tribble ===== References ===== “trǒuble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== trouble alternative form of troublen