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What is the difference between troublesome and troubling?

troublesome | troubling |

As adjectives the difference between troublesome and troubling

is that troublesome is giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome while troubling is distressing, worrying.

As a verb troubling is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun troubling is

the infliction of trouble or distress.

troublesome

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
    • The computer has been very troublesome for me. It never works when I need to use it.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * untroublesome * nontroublesome

    troubling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • distressing, worrying

    • Derived terms

    * troublingly

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The infliction of trouble or distress.
  • * (Donald Friend)
    • Even more important in contributing to a sense of welfare, we both made drawings all the morning, and have laid at rest the troublings of artistic conscience.