Troublesome
/ˈtrʌb.əl.səm/noun
Causing difficulty, annoyance, or distress.
Did you know?Trouble ultimately traces to Latin imagery of agitation and disorder, linking it to words describing cloudy liquids, disturbances, and turbulent motion.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*twer-
“To twist, turn, or whirl; a proposed ancient root connected with agitation and disturbance.”
Classical Latin
Latin
turbāre
“To disturb, stir up, confuse, or throw into disorder.”
Classical Latin
Latin
turbidus
“Stirred up, muddy, confused, or troubled.”
12th–13th Century
Old French
troubler
“To disturb, confuse, trouble, or make turbid.”
13th Century
Middle English
trouble
“Distress, difficulty, affliction; also to disturb or worry.”
Modern English
English
troublesome
“Likely to cause trouble, difficulty, or annoyance; formed from trouble plus the suffix -some, “characterized by” or “tending to cause.””