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1. Characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
   "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers"
    
2. Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
   "these troubled areas"
   - disruptive, riotous, tumultuous, turbulent

1. Move deeply
   "A troubling thought"
   - disturb, upset
    
2. To cause inconvenience or discomfort to
   "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
   - put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother
    
3. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
   - perturb, unhinge, disquiet, cark, distract, disorder
    
4. Take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
   "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"
   - trouble oneself, bother, inconvenience oneself
    
5. Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
   - ail, pain

See also: annoyed, anxious, buffeted, careful [archaic], care-laden, clouded, concerned, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, fraught, hagridden, hag-ridden, harassed, hard put, hard-pressed, harried, haunted, heavy-laden, in a bad way, mothy, nervous, pestered, queasy, storm-tossed, stressed, struggling, suffering, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost, tormented, troublous, uneasy, unquiet, upset, vexed, worried

Type of: affect, bear on, bear upon, hurt, impact, impress, move, reach, strain, strike, strive, touch, touch on

Antonym: untroubled

Encyclopedia: Trouble