easily |
1. adv. Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety. | |
2. adv. Without difficulty. | |
Individuals without a family network are easily controlled. | |
3. adv. (colloquial, not comparable) Absolutely, without question. | |
This is easily the best meal I have eaten. | |
troubled |
1. adj. anxious, worried, careworn. | |
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of trouble | |
trouble |
1. n. A distressing or dangerous situation. | |
He was in trouble when the rain started. | |
2. n. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation. | |
The trouble was a leaking brake line. The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion. The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slig | |
3. n. A violent occurrence or event. | |
the troubles in Northern Ireland | |
4. n. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required. | |
It's no trouble for me to edit it. | |
5. n. A malfunction. | |
He's been in hospital with some heart trouble. My old car has engine trouble. | |
6. n. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority. | |
He had some trouble with the law. | |
7. n. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum. | |
8. v. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water). | |
9. v. To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed. | |
What she said about narcissism is troubling me. | |
10. v. In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience. | |
I will not trouble you to deliver the letter. | |
11. v. (reflexive, or intransitive) To take pains to do something. | |
I won't trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious. | |
squeamish |
1. adj. easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive | |
He might have made a good doctor, had he not been so squeamish about the sight of blood. | |
2. adj. averse or reluctant | |