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Troublous vs Troubling - What's the difference?

troublous | troubling |

As adjectives the difference between troublous and troubling

is that troublous is (obsolete) of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment while troubling is distressing, worrying.

As a verb troubling is

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As a noun troubling is

the infliction of trouble or distress.

troublous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
  • Troubled, confused.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *:On thother side they saw the warlike Mayd / Al in her snow-white smocke, with locks unbowned, / Threatning the point of her avenging blaed; / That with so troublous terror they were all dismayd.
  • Causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 1:
    • the mystery, the pervasive melancholy, the vaguely troublous forecast and retrospect which possess the mind in contemplating this sequestered spot, unhallowed save by the sense of a common humanity [...]

    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.