Dictionary Definition
trouble
Noun
1 a source of difficulty; "one trouble after
another delayed the job"; "what's the problem?" [syn: problem]
2 an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a
fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss, bother, hassle]
3 an event causing distress or pain; "what is the
trouble?"; "heart trouble"
4 an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a
lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty
walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty" [syn:
difficulty]
5 a strong feeling of anxiety; "his worry over
the prospect of being fired"; "it is not work but worry that
kills"; "he wanted to die and end his troubles" [syn: worry]
6 an unwanted pregnancy; "he got several girls in
trouble"
Verb
2 to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry
to trouble you, but..." [syn: put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother]
3 disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be
worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her
father was seriously ill" [syn: perturb, unhinge, disquiet, cark, distract, disorder]
4 take the trouble to do something; concern
oneself; "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday";
"Don't bother, please" [syn: trouble
oneself, bother,
inconvenience
oneself]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A distressful or dangerous situation.
- A difficulty contributing to such a situation
- Efforts taken.
- A malfunction, as in "heart trouble".
- A violent occurrence.
See also
- Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.
Translations
problem
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 麻煩, 麻烦 (máfán)
- Dutch: zorg
- Finnish: ongelma (1), pulma (1), rettelö (2), levottomuus (2,3), selkkaus (2,3), häiriö (3)
- French: souci
- German: Sorge , Ärger , Problem
- Hungarian: baj (1), gond (1), zavar (2)
- Italian: disturbo
- Japanese: 心配 (しんぱい, shimpai), 揉め事 (もめごと, momegoto), 厄介事 (やっかいごと, yakkaigoto), 障害 (しょうがい, shougai)
- Korean: 걱정 (geokjeong)
- Polish: kłopot (1)
- Portuguese: problema (1), preocupação
- Russian: беспокойство (bespokójstvo)
- Scottish Gaelic: dragh , buaireas , teanntachd
- Spanish: preocupación
- Swedish: besvär
- Telugu: ఇబ్బంది (ibbaMdi), గొడవ (goDava)
difficulty or an effort
Translations
Derived terms
French
Verb
- Form of First-person singular present subjunctive, troubler
- Form of Third-person singular present subjunctive, troubler
- Form of Second-person singular imperative, troubler
Extensive Definition
Trouble may refer to:
- A problem
- Trouble (board game), a board game similar to Pachisi
- Trouble (comic book), a mini-series by Marvel Comics
- Trouble (channel), a British and Irish television station
- Trouble, the Maltese dog of Leona Helmsley, beneficiary of a $12 million trust
- Trouble Kelp, a character from the Artemis Fowl series of books
- A pronunciation of To Love-Ru, a manga
Music
Albums
Songs
- "Trouble" (Cat Stevens song), a song by Cat Stevens
- "T-R-O-U-B-L-E", a 1975 single by Elvis Presley
- "Trouble" (Pink song), a 2003 single by singer Pink
- "Trouble" (Cypress Hill song), a single from Cypress Hill's 2001 album Stoned Raiders
- "Trouble" (The Blizzards song), a 2006 single by the Irish band The Blizzards
- "Trouble" (Ray LaMontagne song), a 2004 single by Ray LaMontagne
- "Trouble" (Lindsey Buckingham song), a 1981 single by Lindsey Buckingham
- "Trouble" (Coldplay song), a 2000 single by Coldplay from their album Parachutes
- "Trouble", a 1994 single by the band Shampoo
- "Trouble", a song from the Broadway musical The Music Man and its film adaptations
Bands
- Trouble (band), a doom metal band
See also
trouble in French: Trouble
trouble in Hebrew: צרה
trouble in Dutch: Trouble
trouble in Japanese: トラブル (曖昧さ回避)
trouble in Russian: Trouble
(значения)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Dutch,
abuse a privilege, ado,
adverse circumstances, adversity, afflict, affliction, aggravate, aggravation, agitate, agitation, ail, ailment, alarm, all-overs, angst, anguish, annoy, annoyance, anxiety, anxiety hysteria,
anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat,
anxiousness,
apprehension,
apprehensiveness,
awkwardness, bad
news, be concerned, be the matter, beat, beat up, bedevilment, beset, besetment, bind, bitter cup, bitter draft,
bitter draught, bitter pill, blight, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bug, bummer, burden, burden of care, burdening, burthen, bustle, can of worms, cankerworm
of care, care, cargo, charge, charging, churn, churn up, clumsiness, commotion, complaint, complicate matters,
concern, concernment, convulse, crashing bore,
cross, crown of thorns,
cumbrance, curse, deadweight, defect, demand, destroy, devilment, difficulties, difficulty, disability, disaccommodate, disadvantage, disarrange, discombobulate, discomfit, discomfort, discommode, discommodity, discompose, disconcert, discord, discountenance, disease, disoblige, disorder, dispute, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction,
distract, distress, disturb, disturbance, dogging, donnybrook, donnybrook fair,
downer, drag, dread, dustup, effort, elbow grease, electrify, embarrassment, embroil, embroilment, encroach upon,
encumber, encumbrance, endeavor, energy, evil, exaction, exasperate, exasperation, excite, exertion, fear, ferment, fight, fighting, flurry, fluster, flutter, foofaraw, foreboding, forebodingness, fracas, frazzle, free-for-all, freight, freighting, fret, fuss, gall, gall and wormwood, give
concern, great ado, grief,
grievance, grieve, hamper, handicap, harass, harassment, hard knocks, hard
life, hard lot, hard pull, hardcase, hardship, harm, harry, harrying, hassle, haunt, headache, heckler, hector, helter-skelter, hot
water, hounding,
hubbub, illness, impediment, impedimenta, impose, impose on, impose upon,
imposing an onus, imposition, in a mess, in a
pickle, in a predicament, in a scrape, in trouble, incommode, incommodity, inconsiderateness,
inconvenience,
inconveniency,
inconvenientness,
infliction, inquietude, intrude, irk, irritate, irritation, jar, jolt, laying on, load, load with care, loading, loading down, long
pull, lumber, make free
with, malaise, matter, melee, might and main, misgiving, molestation, muscle, nag, nerve and sinew, nervous
strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nettle, nudnik, nuisance, obtrude upon,
obtrusiveness, on
the spot, onus, oppression, outbreak, overanxiety, overstep, pack, pack of troubles, paddle, pain, pains, peck of troubles,
pell-mell, penalty,
perplex, persecution, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, pest, pester, pins and needles,
plague, plight, pother, predicament, pressure, presume on, presume
upon, presumptuousness,
problem, provoke, psych, pucker, put about, put out, put
to inconvenience, put to it, put to trouble, puzzle, racket, rampage, rebellion, revolt, rigor, rile, riot, ripple, rock, roil, rough-and-tumble, roughen, roughhouse, row, rowel, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumple, rumpus, scramble, sea of troubles,
shake, shake up, shindy, shock, sickness, skirmish, solicitude, sorrow, spook, stagger, stew, stir, stir up, strain, stress, stress of life, strife, suffering, suspense, swirl, take a liberty, take
liberties, take pains, tasking, taxing, tension, thank, thorn, throw, throw into confusion,
to-do, torment, tormenter, trial, tribulation, troubles, troublesomeness,
try, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unhandiness, unpleasantness, unquietness, unrest, unsettle, unwarranted demand,
unwieldiness,
uprising, uproar, upset, vale of tears, vex, vexation, vexatiousness, vicissitude, waters of
bitterness, weigh down, weight, weighting, while, whip, whip up, whisk, white elephant, woe, work up, worriment, worry, zeal