trouble
A distressing or dangerous situation.
Noun 4 meanings
A distressing or dangerous situation.
“He was in trouble when the rain started.”
A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
“The trouble was a leaking brake line.”
A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
Verb 4 meanings
To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
“What she said about narcissism is troubling me.”
In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
“I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.”
To physically afflict.
“My bad knee is troubling me.”
To take pains (to do something); to bother.
“I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.”
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”).
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TROUBLE at a glance
TROUBLE has 7 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (T 1 + R 1 + O 1 + U 1 + B 3 + L 1 + E 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,661 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with trouble
All rhymes- ABLE6
- POSSIBLE12
- AVAILABLE14
- TABLE7
- DOUBLE9
- RESPONSIBLE15
- IMPOSSIBLE16
- TERRIBLE10
- COMFORTABLE20
- INCREDIBLE15
- CAPABLE13
- UNABLE8
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