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In some senses, troublous is marked as obsolete, archaic, literary. Watch for register when choosing this word.
troublous
/ˈtɹʌbləs/
adj 3
Collocations
3VERB + TROUBLOUS
fell
TROUBLOUS + NOUN
day, terror
PREP.
into, with
Definitions
adj
1
Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
2
Troubled, confused.
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.
3
Causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
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"?
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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.
Wiktionary02
The troublous Day has brawled itself to rest: no lives yet lost but that of one warhorse.
Wiktionary03
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–[…]
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