different between troubled vs careful
troubled
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??bl?d/
Adjective
troubled (comparative more troubled, superlative most troubled)
- anxious, worried, careworn.
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
Translations
Verb
troubled
- simple past tense and past participle of trouble
troubled From the web:
- what troubled the young man in the garret
- what troubled calpurnia
- what troubled muhammad about meccan society
- what troubled brutus
- what troubled the author at darchen
- what trouble evelyn
- what trouble are more than the storm
- what troubled maddie more and more
careful
English
Alternative forms
- carefull (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English careful, from Old English carful; equivalent to care +? -ful.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??f?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?(?)?f?l/
Adjective
careful (comparative more careful, superlative most careful)
- Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
- Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
- (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
- (obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:cautious
- See also Thesaurus:meticulous
Antonyms
- careless
Derived terms
- carefully
- carefulness
Translations
Anagrams
- acreful
careful From the web:
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- what careful synonym
- what careful reading
- what's careful in asl
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