Grieved vs Troubled - What's the difference?
grieved | troubled | Related terms |
(grieve)
To cause sorrow or distress to.
* Bible, Eph. iv. 30
* Cowper
To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
To experience grief.
(archaic) To harm.
To submit or file a grievance.
* 2009 D'Amico, Rob , Editor, Texas Teacher , published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:
(obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
(chiefly, Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
* Sir Walter Scott
Anxious, worried, careworn.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(trouble)
Grieved is a related term of troubled.
As verbs the difference between grieved and troubled
is that grieved is (grieve) while troubled is (trouble).As an adjective troubled is
anxious, worried, careworn.grieved
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*grieve
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Etymology 1
From the conjugated forms of (etyl) .Verb
(griev)- Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.
- The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.
- to grieve one's fate
- Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the [...] Board of Trustees.
Derived terms
* grieved * griever * grievinglyEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve .