trouble

trouble is a 7-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
2. transitive verb. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
3. transitive verb. To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
4. adjective. Troubled; dark; gloomy.
5. transitive verb. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.
6. transitive verb. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.
7. transitive verb. A fault or interruption in a stratum.
8. noun. an effort that is inconvenient

   "I went to a lot of trouble"

   "he won without any trouble"

   Synonyms: difficulty

9. noun. a source of difficulty

   "one trouble after another delayed the job"

   "what's the problem?"

   Synonyms: problem

10. noun. an event causing distress or pain

    "what is the trouble?"

    "heart trouble"

11. noun. an angry disturbance

    "he didn't want to make a fuss"

    "they had labor trouble"

    Synonyms: bother, fuss, hassle

12. noun. a strong feeling of anxiety

    "his worry over the prospect of being fired"

    "it is not work but worry that kills"

    Synonyms: worry

13. noun. an unwanted pregnancy

    "he got several girls in trouble"

14. verb. cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed

    Synonyms: ail, pain

15. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, unhinge

16. verb. move deeply

    "This book upset me"

    "A troubling thought"

    Synonyms: disturb, upset

17. verb. take the trouble to do something; concern oneself

    "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"

    "Don't bother, please"

    Synonyms: bother

18. verb. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

    "Sorry to trouble you, but..."

    Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience

Synonyms

difficulty, problem, bother, fuss, hassle, worry, ail, pain, cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, unhinge, disturb, upset, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in trouble:

boulter

Common word forms

troubled, troubler, troubles, troubling, troublement

Words from these letters

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