Social life
Synonyms for trouble
Synonyms for trouble: bother, difficulty, fuss and problem. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for trouble
Interchangeable with trouble, one per sense
Audited under trouble's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one trouble carries in that sense.
- botherverb, in the sense "take the trouble to do something"
- difficultynoun, in the sense "an effort that is inconvenient"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name trouble as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under trouble's own senses. The second reach trouble from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
take the trouble to do something
He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday.
The true synonym
bother
Same sentence, swapped: He did not bother to call his mother on her birthday.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for trouble in the sentence quoted.
- distract
- beat
- throw
an effort that is inconvenient
He won without any trouble.
The true synonym
difficulty
Same sentence, swapped: He won without any difficulty.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- pull
- exercise
- workout
Where trouble turns up in the game
trouble is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where trouble is the trap
- fearverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is reverence, in the sense "regard with feelings of respect and reverence", with trouble sitting one tile away.
Play trouble
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so trouble reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other social life words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. trouble carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.