⚠️ Conflict or disturbance 😟 Difficulty or worry 🛠️ Effort or bother 🙇 To bother 🤰 Unplanned pregnancy 🤢 To make sick 🚶 To make effort

trouble

146 8.7

An unplanned pregnancy that can cause social problems

noun
/ˈtrʌbəl/

Archaic

: embarazo no deseado

The trouble began for me the day I learned I was pregnant.

Examples

The recent rise in unplanned pregnancies has become a growing trouble in urban communities.
I wanted so to have this baby and not make trouble.

A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Because in New York, Jewish girls in trouble go to clinics.

Fiction book (1994)
Number six is irregular menstrual periods and trouble conceiving.
The woman's in trouble.

Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
An unexpected pregnancy can create significant trouble for young families.
Many teenagers face trouble when they find themselves unprepared for a pregnancy.

Idioms

in trouble

∞ 2.9

In difficulty and likely to face bad results because of a mistake or bad situation

to ask for trouble

Informal

12 4.8

Act in a way likely to cause problems

trouble in paradise

Informal

6 6.7

A problem in a relationship or situation that looks perfect

in bed with trouble

Informal

9.8

To be in a difficult situation because of something you did

trouble at mill

9.9

Problems and conflict happening in a workplace or team

Compounds

trouble spot

9 3.7

A place where problems or fighting happen often

Surface Forms

trouble singular

troubles plural

Etymology

Trouble comes from Latin turbare 'to disturb' and was used for serious problems that bring public worry. One helpful way to remember the use for an unwanted pregnancy is to see it as a social problem that 'disturbs' a family's life, so people would say someone was 'in trouble'.