trying

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   hard to endure

   fell upon trying times

2. 2
   adj

   Difficult to endure; arduous.

   "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"

3. 3
   noun

   The act by which one tries something; an attempt.

   In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.

4. 4
   adj

   extremely irritating to the nerves

5. 5
   adj

   Irritating, stressful or bothersome.

6. 6
   verb

   present participle and gerund of try

Etymology

From try + -ing.