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Troubled vs Startled - What's the difference?

troubled | startled |

As adjectives the difference between troubled and startled

is that troubled is anxious, worried, careworn while startled is frightened.

As verbs the difference between troubled and startled

is that troubled is (trouble) while startled is (startle).

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)
  • startled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Frightened.
  • Extremely shocked.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (startle)