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Struggling vs Troubled - What's the difference?

struggling | troubled | Related terms |

Struggling is a related term of troubled.


As verbs the difference between struggling and troubled

is that struggling is while troubled is (trouble).

As a noun struggling

is the act of one who struggles.

As an adjective troubled is

anxious, worried, careworn.

struggling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who struggles.
  • * 1848 , Orville Dewey, Discourses on the Nature of Religion
    • All the strugglings of genius in thee, have never equalled the strugglings of virtue in him.

    troubled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anxious, worried, careworn.
  • *
  • *: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.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (trouble)