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Concerned vs Troubled - What's the difference?

concerned | troubled |

As adjectives the difference between concerned and troubled

is that concerned is showing concern while troubled is anxious, worried, careworn.

As verbs the difference between concerned and troubled

is that concerned is (concern) while troubled is (trouble).

concerned

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing concern.
    • There was a concerned expression on her face as I told her the news.
  • Involved or responsible.
    • The people concerned have been punished.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (concern)

    • 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)