Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent, disruptive
Definition: characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
Usage: effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive; riotous times; these troubled areas; the tumultuous years of his administration; a turbulent and unruly childhood
Similar words: unquiet
Definition: characterized by unrest or disorder
Usage: unquiet days of riots; following the assassination of Martin Luter King ours was an unquiet nation; spent an unquiet night tossing and turning
Synonyms: troubled
Definition: characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
Usage: troubled areas; fell into a troubled sleep; a troubled expression; troubled teenagers
Similar words: harassed, harried, pestered, vexed, annoyed
Definition: troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
Usage: harassed working mothers; a harried expression; her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions; the vexed parents of an unruly teenager
Similar words: anxious, uneasy, queasy, unquiet, nervous
Definition: causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
Usage: spent an anxious night waiting for the test results; cast anxious glances behind her; those nervous moments before takeoff; an unquiet mind
Similar words: storm-tossed, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost, buffeted
Definition: pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
Similar words: careful
Definition: full of cares or anxiety
Usage: Thou art careful and troubled about many things-Luke 10.41
Similar words: care-laden, heavy-laden
Definition: burdened by cares
Usage: all ye that labor and are heavy-laden-Matt.11:28
Similar words: clouded
Definition: made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance
Usage: his face was clouded with unhappiness
Similar words: distressed, disturbed, disquieted, upset, worried
Definition: afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
Usage: too upset to say anything; spent many disquieted moments; distressed about her son's leaving home; lapsed into disturbed sleep; worried parents; a worried frown; one last worried check of the sleeping children
Similar words: hard put, hard-pressed, in a bad way, distressed
Definition: facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
Usage: distressed companies need loans and technical advice; financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices; we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment; found themselves in a bad way financially
Similar words: fraught
Definition: marked by distress
Usage: a fraught mother-daughter relationship
Similar words: tormented, hag-ridden, hagridden
Definition: tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears
Usage: hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth- C.S.Lewis
Similar words: haunted
Definition: showing emotional affliction or disquiet
Usage: her expression became progressively more haunted
Similar words: mothy
Definition: infested with moths
Similar words: stressed, distressed
Definition: suffering severe physical strain or distress
Usage: he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing
Similar words: struggling
Definition: engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity
Usage: a financially struggling theater; struggling artists
Similar words: suffering
Definition: troubled by pain or loss
Usage: suffering refugees
Similar words: troublous
Definition: full of trouble
Usage: these are troublous times