Trying

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing strain, hardship, or distress.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Difficult to endure; arduous.
  • adj. Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
  • v. Present participle of try.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of a kind to test severely or thoroughly; difficult; severe: as, a trying ordeal; trying circumstances; a color trying to one's complexion.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. extremely irritating to the nerves
  • adj. hard to endure
  • Equivalent
    disagreeable    difficult    hard   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    severe    afflictive   
    Verb Stem
    try   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    allying    applying    belying    buying    complying    crying    decrying    defying    denying    drying