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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

causing trouble, problems, or worry;

e.g. The troublesome miscreants were quickly caught by the local constable.

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Similar Words

Daunting

Disturbing

Nagging

Nasty

Perturbing

Scabrous

Stressful

Troubling

Troublous

Unsettling

Upsetting

Worrisome

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Opposite Words

Cheap

Deadening

Downhill

Dreamy

Easy

Effortless

Facile

Fluent

Fluid

Inviting

Light

Narcotic

Ready

Reassuring

Royal

Sedative

Settling

Smooth

Snap

Soothing

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Related Words

Abrasive

Adverse

Adversely

Aggravating

Alarming

Annoying

Anxious

Arduous

Awkward

Backbreaking

Bothersome

Catchy

Challenging

Chilling

Counter

Creepy

Daunting

Delicate

Demanding

Deplorable

Difficult

Dire

Direful

Disadvantageous

Dismaying

Distressful

Disturbing

Dodgy

Dread

Dreadful

Embarrassing

Exacting

Exasperating

Fearful

Fearsome

Forbidding

Formidable

Fraught

Frightening

Frightful

Frustrating

Galling

Ghastly

Grievous

Grueling

Hair-raising

Hairy

Hard

Heartbreaking

Heartrending

Hellacious

Herculean

Horrendous

Horrible

Hostile

Inconvenient

Inimical

Irksome

Irritating

Killer

Knotty

Laborious

Lamentable

Maddening

Moiling

Murderous

Negative

Nerve-racking

Nervous

Pesky

Pestiferous

Pestilent

Pestilential

Prejudicial

Prickly

Problematic

Regrettable

Restless

Rigorous

Rough

Rugged

Scary

Sensitive

Severe

Shocking

Spiny

Sticky

Stiff

Strenuous

Sweaty

Tall

Tense

Terrible

Terrifying

Testing

Thorny

Ticklish

Toilsome

Touchy

Tough

Tragic

Tricksy

Tricky

Uncomfortable

Uneasy

Unfavorable

Unfortunate

Unfriendly

Unlucky

Unsettling

Unsympathetic

Untoward

Uphill

Vexatious

Vexing

Woeful

Worrisome

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Phrases

• pain in the neck

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