troublousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈtɹʌbləs/

形容詞

troublous (comparative more troublous, superlative most troublous)

1. (obsolete) Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
2. (now archaic or literary) Troubled, confused.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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 […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     The troublous Day has brawled itself to rest: no lives yet lost but that of one warhorse.

   • 1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:

     By and by he fell into a troublous sleep—it seemed that he was going to be stoned, and then he was in battle, and then shipwrecked in the water– […]

3. (now archaic or literary) Causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 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 [...]

   • 1917, Henry James, The Sense of the Past:

     The whole waited, for didn't there hang behind this troublous foreground the vast vagueness which the English themselves spoke of as "abroad"?

派生語

• troublously
• troublousness

語源

Borrowed from Middle French troubleus and Anglo-Norman troublous; by surface analysis, trouble (“disturbance”) +‎ -ous (“-ous”).

発音

• IPA: /ˌtruːb(ə)ˈluːs/, /ˌtrub(ə)ˈluːs/
• IPA: /ˈtruːb(ə)lus/, /ˈtrub(ə)lus/, /-ləs/ (with retraction of stress)

形容詞

troublous (Late Middle English)

1. (usually of liquid) Muddy, cloudy, opaque.
2. (of weather) Stormy, violent, tempestuous.
3. Troubling, dangerous, challenging.
4. Troubled, disturbed, agitated.

派生した語

• English: troublous
• Middle Scots: troublous

参照

• “trǒublǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.