396 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ tɹˈʌblɪŋ], [ tɹˈʌblɪŋ], [ t_ɹ_ˈʌ_b_l_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for troubling:

• bad (adjective)
• disquieting (adjective)
• disturbing (adjective)
• embarrassing (adjective)
• irksome (adjective)
• irritating (adjective)
• maddening (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• perturbing (adjective)
• torturous (adjective)
• unsettling (adjective)
• upsetting (adjective)
• heavy (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• aggravating (verb)
• agitating (verb)
• deranging (verb)
• trouble (verb)
• other synonyms
• awkward
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for troubling

Synonyms for Troubling:

• adj.

  • bad (adjective)
  • troubling,
  • unfavorable,
  • disagreeable,
  • adverse,
  • grim,
  • discouraged,
  • troubled,
  • gloomy,
  • distressed,
  • unpleasant,
  • unfortunate,
  • discouraging,
  • displeasing,
  • melancholy,
  • unhappy.
  • disquieting (adjective)
  • troublesome,
  • disconcerting,
  • unnerving,
  • perplexing,
  • bothersome.
  • disturbing (adjective)
  • sinister,
  • uncertain,
  • impeding,
  • frightening,
  • ominous,
  • foreboding,
  • depressing,
  • alarming,
  • consequential,
  • startling,
  • pessimistic,
  • dismaying,
  • painful,
  • severe,
  • Discomforting,
  • creepy,
  • laborious,
  • onerous,
  • toilsome,
  • threatening,
  • wearisome,
  • prophetic,
  • hard.
  • embarrassing (adjective)
  • inconvenient,
  • touchy,
  • awkward,
  • ticklish,
  • incommodious,
  • difficult,
  • mortifying,
  • unpropitious,
  • delicate,
  • sensitive,
  • shameful,
  • compromising,
  • Distracting,
  • rattling,
  • Discomfiting,
  • tricky,
  • impossible,
  • sticky,
  • unseemly,
  • puzzling,
  • Discommoding,
  • inopportune,
  • equivocal,
  • uneasy,
  • bewildering.
  • irksome (adjective)
  • tedious,
  • burdensome,
  • boring,
  • tiresome.
  • irritating (adjective)
  • maddening.
  • maddening (adjective)
  • vexatious,
  • provoking,
  • Riling,
  • trying,
  • frustrating.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • Discommodious,
  • upsetting,
  • torturous,
  • unsettling,
  • disquieting,
  • perturbing,
  • disturbing,
  • Irksome,
  • troublous,
  • bad.
  • perturbing (adjective)
  • intrusive,
  • disruptive.
  • torturous (adjective)
  • excruciating,
  • agonizing,
  • punishing.
  • unsettling (adjective)
  • un-settling,
  • un settling.
  • upsetting (adjective)
  • up-setting,
  • up setting.

• n.

  •
  • tight,
  • uncomfortable,
  • cramped,
  • claustrophobic,
  • unnatural,
  • strange,
  • strained.
  • heavy (noun)
  • heavy.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • worrisome,
  • distressing,
  • distressful,
  • worrying.

• v.

  • aggravating (verb)
  • irritating,
  • vexing,
  • antagonizing,
  • aggravating,
  • Rankling,
  • Discomposing,
  • infuriating,
  • exasperating,
  • exacerbating,
  • baiting,
  • chafing,
  • pestering,
  • annoying,
  • Fretting,
  • Harassing,
  • badgering,
  • grating,
  • Enraging,
  • Harrying,
  • Envenoming,
  • tormenting,
  • nagging,
  • inflaming,
  • Bedeviling,
  • Bothering,
  • Arousing,
  • hassling,
  • needling,
  • teasing,
  • irking,
  • peeving.
  • agitating (verb)
  • shuddering,
  • stirring,
  • palpitating,
  • quavering,
  • twitching,
  • jolting,
  • churning,
  • shivering,
  • quaking,
  • quivering,
  • Flustering,
  • agitating,
  • shaking,
  • jarring.
  • deranging (verb)
  • whipping,
  • Botching,
  • Messing,
  • fermenting,
  • Misplacing,
  • tampering,
  • Ruffling,
  • swirling,
  • Hashing,
  • Convulsing,
  • Blurring,
  • Cluttering,
  • mixing up,
  • roiling,
  • Mussing,
  • tousling,
  • tumbling,
  • Displacing,
  • Roughening,
  • Disheveling,
  • Disarranging,
  • Disorganizing,
  • Whisking,
  • Dislocating,
  • Muddling,
  • meddling,
  • Disordering,
  • capsizing,
  • Scrambling,
  • Rummaging,
  • confounding,
  • Rumpling,
  • Mislaying,
  • tossing,
  • scattering,
  • confusing,
  • rippling,
  • Jumbling,
  • Deranging.
  • trouble (verb)
  • pester,
  • take pains,
  • upset,
  • distress,
  • afflict,
  • exert,
  • PSYCH,
  • get to,
  • inconvenience,
  • pain,
  • harry,
  • sadden,
  • try,
  • flip out,
  • burn up,
  • make a fuss,
  • vex,
  • irritate,
  • torment,
  • perplex,
  • drive up the wall,
  • give a bad time,
  • stress,
  • give a hard time,
  • perturb,
  • make a scene,
  • harass,
  • make waves,
  • fret,
  • plague,
  • be concerned with,
  • ail,
  • grieve,
  • burden,
  • strain,
  • discommode,
  • disoblige,
  • concern,
  • take the time,
  • discompose,
  • impose on,
  • go to the effort of,
  • spook.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • unwelcoming.
  •
  • suffocating,
  • pokey.
  •
  • stifling,
  • jerky,
  • heavily,
  • stinging.
  •
  • close.
  • awkward
  • embarrassing.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • raging,
  • breathtaking,
  • anguishing,
  • exasperation,
  • irritation,
  • anesthetizing,
  • suspenseful,
  • nasty,
  • agitate,
  • Overturning,
  • trouble,
  • Incommoding,
  • Squabbling,
  • stir up,
  • rioting,
  • pestilential,
  • dousing,
  • smothering,
  • disturb,
  • Scuffling,
  • hopeless,
  • afflictive,
  • Nettling,
  • pesky,
  • striking,
  • suspensive,
  • Graveling,
  • haunting,
  • sorrowing,
  • pestiferous,
  • regrettable,
  • dark,
  • Devilling,
  • off-putting,
  • grieving,
  • Afflicting,
  • electrical,
  • overwhelming,
  • dithering,
  • Disarraying,
  • Burdening,
  • saddening,
  • retiring,
  • pitiful,
  • ravishing,
  • exciting,
  • inconveniencing,
  • flapping,
  • disobliging,
  • tough,
  • unfavourable,
  • rattle on,
  • touching,
  • grievous,
  • Plaguing,
  • Harming,
  • charged,
  • disastrous,
  • heady,
  • disquiet,
  • Jobbing,
  • desperate,
  • botheration,
  • galling,
  • conflicting,
  • sorry,
  • thrilling,
  • Diseasing,
  • exhilarating,
  • peeve,
  • galvanic,
  • Importune,
  • impressive,
  • telling,
  • awful,
  • Molesting,
  • Overcoming,
  • lamentable,
  • tussling,
  • overpowering,
  • disadvantaging,
  • straining,
  • anaesthetizing,
  • oppressive,
  • serious,
  • Fussing,
  • interfere with,
  • concerning,
  • pestilent,
  • electric,
  • annoy,
  • wretched,
  • stimulating,
  • Deflecting,
  • sad,
  • piquant,
  • Mattering,
  • Embroiling,
  • importunate,
  • Paining,
  • caring,
  • overmastering,
  • deplorable,
  • abet,
  • intoxicating,
  • plaguey,
  • Extending,
  • heart-stirring,
  • cliff-hanging,
  • unreassuring,
  • trialing,
  • stimulative,
  • Carking,
  • harrowing,
  • issuing,
  • woeful,
  • damaging,
  • Hustling,
  • annoyance,
  • soul-stirring,
  • grave,
  • Flurrying,
  • pressuring,
  • Swaging,
  • Straitening,
  • tragic,
  • put out,
  • provocative,
  • bickering,
  • Interrupting,
  • inflammatory,
  • tantalizing,
  • irk,
  • Charging,
  • publishing,
  • rousing,
  • moving,
  • Pothering,
  • Commoving,
  • disconcert,
  • miserable,
  • bustling,
  • ailing,
  • affecting,
  • unhinging,
  • demanding,
  • Deviling,
  • releasing,
  • exercising,
  • mind-blowing,
  • plaguesome.

Paraphrases for Troubling:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    disconcerting, disquieting, disturbing, worrying, unsettling.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    disconcerting.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Plaguing.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    annoying, appalling, astonishing, awkward, blurry, challenging, chilling, concerning, confusing, contentious, daunting, difficult, dire, disappointing, distressed, disturbed, eerie, grim, inappropriate, inconvenient, intractable, intrusive, nagging, precarious, pressing, questionable, restive, shocking, sobering, staggering, startling, striking, surprising, thorny, threatening, tough, troubled, turbulent, uncanny, uneasy, unfortunate, unpleasant, unsettled, upsetting, worried, Distracting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    affecting, baffling, bewildering, calling, complaining, concerning, confusing, disturbing, eating, haunting, hitting, hurting, intruding, suffering, trying, upsetting, weighing, wondering, worrying, worsening, Afflicting, Bedevilling, Besetting, Bothering, Disrupting, Impacting, Impairing, Interrupting, Preoccupying, undermining, bugging.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    alarming, concerned, cumbersome, disruptive, distressing, embarrassing, frightening, laborious, ominous, painful, problematic, problematical, puzzling, scary, serious, strange, troublesome, uncomfortable, unnerving, Preoccupying.