untroubled

[ uhn-truhb-uhld ]

/ ʌnˈtrʌb əld /

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adjective

without trouble, discomfort, or disturbance: an easy, untroubled life;He was untroubled by daily setbacks.

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Origin of untroubled

First recorded in 1480–90; un-¹ + trouble + -ed²

Words nearby untroubled

untread, untreated, untried, untrimmed, untrod, untroubled, untrue, untruss, untrustworthy, untruth, untruthful

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How to use untroubled in a sentence

For people haunted by recurring nightmares, untroubled sleep would be a dream come true.
A new treatment for debilitating nightmares offers sweeter dreams|Jackie Rocheleau|October 27, 2022|Science News
Many Americans were untroubled by the ruling, and unfazed by the news of deaths in faraway northern Yemen.
In the shadow of the towers: Five lives and a world transformed|Joby Warrick, Souad Mekhennet|September 2, 2021|Washington Post
That’s not to say that the five young women at the center of this show live in some untroubled fantasy-land, or that they don’t struggle over how to navigate their hybrid identities.
Peacock's All-Girl Muslim Punk Band Comedy We Are Lady Parts Is a Rockin' Good Time|Judy Berman|June 2, 2021|Time
The Fuhrer may have fallen but his ideology persists in this redoubt of Nazism, untroubled by a sympathetic Argentine regime.
Holocaust Horrors Haunt the Films ‘Ida’ And ‘The German Doctor’|Jack Schwartz|May 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

No one had any difficulties sleeping the deep, untroubled slumber of the brave and the just.
The Night the SEALS Captured the Butcher of Fallujah|Patrick Robinson|November 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
As for flying off the fiscal cliff, Norquist sounds untroubled.
Grover Norquist Sees the Fiscal Cliff and Guns It|Lloyd Grove|November 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
My guess is that Benjamin Rush would have disliked it, while Benjamin Franklin would have been untroubled—but who knows?
What the Founders Would Tell Charles Murray|David Frum|February 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
If anybody ever deserved an untroubled berth as an AEI scholar, it was DeMuth.
What the Hell Just Happened at AEI?|David Frum|January 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Her eyes were very bright, no shadows in their depths; she returned his gaze with untroubled frankness.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
Here are a pair who are untroubled by curious glances; the nearer houses of the village are quite close by.
Bastien Lepage|Fr. Crastre
On the way, Don Rodrigue makes love to her assiduously, but the young girl's heart seems untroubled.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
We conversed upon the subject, and the probability of our soon sharing their untroubled sleep.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment|Silvio Pellico
But with a faith, untroubled by abuse,That honors those who put the rest to shame!
With the Colors|Everard Jack Appleton

British Dictionary definitions for untroubled

untroubled

/ (ʌnˈtrʌbləd) /

adjective

not feeling, showing, or involving anxiety, worry, or discomfort

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