Trouble vs Sorrow - What's the difference?
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A distressful or dangerous situation.
A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
* (John Milton)
* (William Shakespeare)
A violent occurrence or event.
* , chapter=7
, title= Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
* Bryant
*1881 , :
*:Indeed, by the report of our elders, this nervous preparation for old age is only trouble thrown away.
A malfunction.
Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
(mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
* Bible, John v. 4
* Milton
To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
* Bible, John xii. 27
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.
To take pains to do something.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.26:
(uncountable) unhappiness, woe
* Rambler
(countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
To feel or express grief.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
*, II.12:
In transitive terms the difference between trouble and sorrow
is that trouble is in weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester while sorrow is to feel grief over; to mourn, regret.As nouns the difference between trouble and sorrow
is that trouble is a distressful or dangerous situation while sorrow is unhappiness, woe.As verbs the difference between trouble and sorrow
is that trouble is to disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water) while sorrow is to feel or express grief.trouble
English
Noun
(en noun)- Lest the fiend some new trouble raise.
- Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles .
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- She never took the trouble to close them.
Usage notes
* Verbs often used with "trouble": make, spell, stir up, ask for, etc.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* ask for trouble * distrouble * double trouble * engine trouble * get into trouble * in trouble * teething troubles * trouble and strife * troubled * trouble-free * trouble in paradise * troublemaker/trouble maker * troubler * The Troubles * troubleshoot * troubleshooter * troubleshooting * troublesome * trouble spotSee also
* for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.Verb
(troubl)- An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water.
- God looking forth will trouble all his host.
- Now is my soul troubled .
- Take the boy to you; he so troubles me / 'Tis past enduring.
- Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure.
- Question 3 in the test is troubling me.
- I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
- Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.
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English
Noun
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
- Parting is such sweet sorrow .
Verb
(en verb)- ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
- It is impossible to make a man naturally blind, to conceive that he seeth not; impossible to make him desire to see, and sorrow his defect.