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trou·bling

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worryingadjective

    causing distress or worry or anxiety

    "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"

Wiktionary

  1. troublingadjective

    distressing, worrying

Webster Dictionary

  1. Troubling

    of Trouble

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of troubling in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of troubling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of troubling in a Sentence

  1. Dieter Bohn:

    It is very troubling.

  2. Lee Gelernt:

    It is very troubling that there are children and parents who are not in some kind of government tracking system.

  3. Robert Barchi:

    This has been a sad and deeply troubling situation for our students and our staff, and for our faculty, who stand for much nobler values than those expressed by this particular professor.

  4. William Shipley:

    We got a trial by residents of a small judicial district who in one way or another were almost all impacted by the events of January 6, and I think that raises some real troubling issues.

  5. Barry Schwartz:

    This is a troubling time for all investors, making moves at this juncture is just going to cause more problems.

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    used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner
    • A. ambidextrous
    • B. butch
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