trying adj

1 hard to endure; "fell upon trying times"

2 extremely irritating to the nerves; "nerve-racking noise"; "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the office" [syn: nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful]

English

Pronunciation

Verb

trying

1. present participle of try

Adjective

1. Difficult to endure; arduous
2. irritating, stressful or bothersome

Translations

adverse, analytic, annoying, antagonistic, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, conflicting, contrary, counter, counteractive, crushing, cut-and-try, demanding, detrimental, devitalizing, difficult, dispiriting, disquieting, distressing, draining, empirical, enervating, enfeebling, exacting, examinational, examinatorial, examining, exasperating, exhausting, exigent, experimental, explorational, explorative, exploratory, fact-finding, fatiguesome, fatiguing, feeling, frustrating, groping, grueling, hard, harmful, heavy, hefty, heuristic, hit-or-miss, hostile, in opposition, indagative, infuriating, inimical, inspectional, inspectorial, investigational, investigative, investigatory, irksome, irritating, killing, maddening, miserable, not easy, onerous, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppressive, painful, pilot, plaguey, probationary, probative, probatory, proving, provisional, punishing, rigorous, rough, sapping, sinister, sticky, straining, strenuous, stressful, superincumbent, taxing, tentative, test, testing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, tough, trial, trial-and-error, tricksy, tricky, troublesome, troublous, unfavorable, untoward, upsetting, verificatory, vexatious, vexing, weakening, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weighty, worrisome, worrying, wretched, zetetic