troubled

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need

   troubled areas

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   Afflicted by difficulties.

   The troubled Internet company announced another round of layoffs last week.

4. 4
   adj

   characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination

5. 5
   verb

   simple past and past participle of trouble