troublesome (le as el)

[English trouble; -some . 1. Giving or causing trouble, worry, anxiety, vexation, inconvenience, embarra ment, or sorrow; annoying, vexatious, tiresome, hara ing, wearisome, irksome, importunate. "He was a man that had the root of the matter in him; but he was one of the most troublesome pilgrims that ever I met with in all my days." -Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progre , pt. ii. *2. Full of commotion; tumultuous. "There arose in the ship such a troublesome disturbance."-Hackluyt: Voyages, ii. 111. troŭb-le-some-lý (le as el), adverb . English troublesome-ly.] In a troublesome manner; so as to cause trouble; vexatiously. "Though men will not be so troublesomely critical as to correct us in the use of words."-Locke: Human Underst., bk. iii., ch. x.