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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Full of trouble; causing trouble.

“In doubtful time of troublous need.”

Byron.

A tall ship tossed in

troublous

seas.

Spenser.

Adj.

trub'lus. Agitated; tumultuous; full of commotion.

A tall ship toss'd in troublous seas.

Full of trouble or disorder; tumultuous; full of affliction.

The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. Dan.9.

troublous ‎(comparative more troublous, superlative most troublous)

(obsolete) Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
(now archaic or literary) Troubled, confused.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
  On thother side they saw the warlike Mayd / Al in her snow-white smocke, with locks unbowned, / Threatning the point of her avenging blaed; / That with so troublous terror they were all dismayd.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
  The troublous Day has brawled itself to rest: no lives yet lost but that of one warhorse.
(now archaic or literary) Causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 1:
  the mystery, the pervasive melancholy, the vaguely troublous forecast and retrospect which possess the mind in contemplating this sequestered spot, unhallowed save by the sense of a common humanity [...]