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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Herculean, adverse, aggravating, alarming, annoying, antagonistic, arduous, awkward, backbreaking, besetting, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, chafing, choking, clumsy, conflicting, constrictive, contrary, counter, counteractive, counterproductive, crosswise, crushing, detrimental, difficult, discommodious, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, effortful, exasperating, forced, fretting, galling, grueling, harassing, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harmful, heavy, hefty, hindering, hindersome, hostile, importunate, importune, in opposition, in the way, incommodious, inconvenient, infestive, inhibiting, inhibitive, inimical, interrupting, interruptive, irking, irksome, irritating, killing, labored, laborious, mean, miserable, not easy, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, onerous, operose, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, punishing, repressive, restrictive, rigorous, sinister, stifling, strained, strangling, strenuous, stressful, suppressive, teasing, tiresome, toilsome, tormenting, tough, troubling, troublous, trying, ugly, unfavorable, unhandy, untoward, unwieldy, uphill, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wicked, worrisome, worrying, wretched

Dictionary Results for troublesome:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

troublesome
    adj 1: difficult to deal with; "a troublesome infection"; "a
           troublesome situation"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Troublesome \Trou"ble*some\, a.
   Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
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         This troublesome world.                  --Book of
                                                  Common Prayer.
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         These troublesome disguises that we wear. --Milton.
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         My mother will never be troublesome to me. --Pope.
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   Syn: Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing; harassing; annoying;
        disgusting; irksome; afflictive; burdensome; tiresome;
        wearisome; importunate.
        [1913 Webster] -- Trou"ble*some*ly, adv. --
        Trou"ble*some*ness, n.
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