Synonyms for troublesome
ˈtrʌb əl səmtrou·ble·some

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1. troublesomeadjective

   Antonyms:
   nontroublesome, untroublesome

2. troublesomeadjective

   This computer's been very troublesome for me. It never works when I need to use it.

   Antonyms:
   nontroublesome, untroublesome

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1. troublesome

   Synonyms:
   tiresome, irksome, difficult, tedious, arduous, laborious, grievous, importunate, vexatious

   Antonyms:
   easy, pleasant, amusing, facile, light, unlaborious, untroublesome

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1. troublesomeadjective

   difficult to deal with

   "a troublesome infection"; "a troublesome situation"

   Antonyms:
   easy

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1. troublesomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   vexatious, annoying, perplexing, harassing, galling, painful, burdensome, wearisome, tiresome, irksome, PLAGUY, knotty, hard

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1. troublesomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   vexatious, burdensome, afflictive, harassing, galling, wearisome

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1. List of paraphrases for "troublesome":

   problematic, bothersome, embarrassing, disturbing, awkward, difficult, troubling, grim

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1. Christian Carino:

   I'm aware of him being tardy but he's been tardy on everything his entire life, i think it's troublesome to everybody, but everyone has learned how to produce a film to deal with it.

2. George Eliot, Middlemarch:

   The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

3. Karen Sanderson:

   Holiday gatherings at work are the most troublesome, people bring in all these fatty, calorie-heavy foods, lots of desserts, and when you're looking at a buffet of 20 different things and there's only one plate of fruit, what are you supposed to do ?

4. John Dewey:

   The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

5. Margrethe Vestager:

   So far obviously things are troublesome, but the stock market does no tell the full story of financial stability.