Another word for trouble
trouble
n.
Difficulty
strain, stress, struggle; see difficulty 1, 2.
A person or thing causing trouble
annoyance, difficult situation, bother, bind, hindrance, difficulty, task, puzzle, predicament, plight, problem, fear, worry, concern, inconvenience, nuisance, disturbance, calamity, catastrophe, crisis, negative function, delay, quarrel, dispute, affliction, intrusion, disquiet, irritation, trial, pain, pique, ordeal, discomfort, injury, adversity, hang-up, case, bore, gossip, problem child, pestiferous person, meddler, pest, tease, tiresome person, talkative person, inconsiderate person, intruder, troublemaker, fly in the ointment*, monkey wrench*, headache*, smart aleck*, buttinski*, brat*, handful*, holy terror*, bad news*, botheration*, peck of trouble*; see also care 2.
Illness
malady, ailment, affliction; see disease.
Civil disorder
riot, turmoil, strife; see disturbance 2.
A quarrel
in a quandary, in difficulty, in a predicament, out on a limb, in chancery, unfortunate, having trouble, in hot water*, in dutch*, in for it*, in bad*, up the creek*, up a tree*, in the doghouse*, in a jam*; see also troubled 1, unfortunate 2.
with child, pregnant out of wedlock, expecting*, knocked up*; see pregnant 1.
trouble
v.
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Another word for trouble
The condition of being in need of immediate assistance:
distress, exigence, exigency, hot water. See helpThe state or quality of being inconvenient:
discomfort, incommodiousness, incommodity, inconvenience. See comfortA difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition:
box1, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, hot water, jam, plight1, predicament, quagmire, scrape, soup. (Informal) bind, pickle, spot. See easyA cause of distress or anxiety:
care, concern, worry. See concernThe use of energy to do something:
effort, endeavor, exertion, pain (used in plural), strain1, striving, struggle, while. (Informal) elbow grease. See work
To cause anxious uneasiness in:
ail, cark, concern, distress, worry. See concernTo come to mind continually:
haunt, obsess, torment, weigh on (or upon). See repetitionTo cause inconvenience for:
discomfort, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out. See comfort
MLA Style
"trouble." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 17 June 2019. <https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/TROUBLE>.
APA Style
trouble. (n.d.). Retrieved June 17th, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/TROUBLE
