Trying

/ˈtɹaɪ.ɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Difficult to endure; arduous..

Definitions by Sense

1. Difficult to endure; arduous.
2. Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
3. present participle and gerund of try
4. (philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.

Example Sentences

"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"

Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.

Tryin’ times, what the world is talkin’ about / You got confusion all over the land, yeah

In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.

When I write with others, the pauses and manyfold attempts to get at an idea mirror the cadence of a conversation or the tryings of finding a word that evades the tongue. That searching is such a beautiful thing.

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• more trying
• most trying
• tryings

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