troublous
/ˈtɹʌbləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On thother side they saw the warlike Mayd Al in her snow-white smocke, with locks unbowned Threatning the point of her avenging blaed; That with so troublous terror they were all dismayd."
- "The troublous Day has brawled itself to rest: no lives yet lost but that of one warhorse."
- "Morris, our sweet and simple Chaucer's child, Dear heritor of Spenser's tuneful reed, With soft and sylvan pipe has oft beguiled The weary soul of man in troublous need, And from the far and flowerless fields of ice Has brought fair flowers meet to make an earthly paradise."
- "the mystery, the pervasive melancholy, the vaguely troublous forecast and retrospect which possess the mind in contemplating this sequestered spot, unhallowed save by the sense of a common humanity [...]"
- "The whole waited, for didn't there hang behind this troublous foreground the vast vagueness which the English themselves spoke of as "abroad"?"
- "By and by he fell into a troublous sleep—it seemed that he was going to be stoned, and then he was in battle, and then shipwrecked in the water–[…]"
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English troublous, from Anglo-Norman troublous and Middle French troubleus, corresponding to trouble + -ous.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈtɹʌbləs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more troublous (comparative)
most troublous (superlative)