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Troubler vs Troubled - What's the difference?

troubler | troubled |

As a noun troubler

is one who, or that which, troubles; a disturber.

As an adjective troubled is

anxious, worried, careworn.

As a verb troubled is

(trouble).

troubler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, troubles; a disturber.
  • *1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
  • *:They are the troublers , they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and permit not others to unite those dissever'd peeces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
  • ----

    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)