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troublesome

adj
/ˈtɹʌbəlsəm/

Etymology

From trouble + -some.

  1. derived from troble
  2. inherited from trouble
  3. derived from turbula
  4. derived from *turbulō✻
  5. derived from troubler
  6. inherited from troublen
  7. suffixed as troublesome — “trouble + some”

Definitions

  1. Causing trouble or anxiety.

    • The computer has been very troublesome for me. It never works when I need to use it.
    • As was the case with the "Merchant Navy" locomotives, some of these features have proved troublesome, and this in turn at times has reflected on performance as well as on maintenance.
    • The problem is that the likes of Shapps and his boss Boris Johnson are eager for a fight with the unions. They are being deliberately provocative, so they can portray railway workers as 'troublesome trots'.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at troublesome. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at troublesome. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at troublesome

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA