troublous

From Old French troubleus, corresponding to trouble +‎ -ous.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌbləs/

troublous (comparative more troublous, superlative most troublous)

1. (obsolete) Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
2. (now archaic or literary) Troubled, confused.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     The troublous Day has brawled itself to rest: no lives yet lost but that of one warhorse.

   • 1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:

     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– […]

3. (now archaic or literary) Causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 1:

     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 [...]

   • 1917, Henry James, The Sense of the Past:

     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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