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Adjective

They have been through some trying times together.

He can be very trying at times.

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During an incredibly trying time, culminating in mom’s passing, Tug was an unbelievable local asset – and a friend!

—David Nour, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023

But under the most trying circumstances, losing one’s empathy is also very human.

—Hazlitt, 13 Dec. 2022

The virtual component was rather more trying.

—Thomas Page, CNN, 19 Sep. 2021

Post All-Star will be the most trying time for the Kings, though.

—Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023

Lady Glenconner, who was born only six years after Queen Elizabeth, shares the late monarch’s generational and class-based manners and mores, which demanded the performance of reserve and restraint under the most trying of circumstances.

—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023

The heartache in El Paso and across the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is not just an inescapable grief, but a shared and, some say, a shattered portrait of resiliency tested under the most trying of circumstances.

—Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2020

But what’s certain is that the group doesn’t plan to slow down despite having experienced their most trying and tragic year yet.

—Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2023

The transcript highlights that Milley has worked through one of the most trying terms as chairman of the Joint Chiefs in years, said Peter Feaver, a Duke University professor who studies civil-military relations.

—Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023

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try·ing

(trī′ĭng)

adj.

Causing strain, hardship, or distress.

try′ing·ly adv.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

trying

(ˈtraɪɪŋ)

adj

upsetting, difficult, or annoying: a trying day at the office.

ˈtryingly adv

ˈtryingness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

try•ing

(ˈtraɪ ɪŋ)

adj.

straining one’s patience and goodwill; annoying, difficult, or irritating.

[1710–20]

try′ing•ly, adv.

try′ing•ness, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

trying — hard to endure; «fell upon trying times»

difficult, hard — not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; «a difficult task»; «nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access»; «difficult times»; «why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?»

trying — extremely irritating to the nerves; «nerve-racking noise»; «the stressful days before a war»; «a trying day at the office»

disagreeable — not to your liking; «a disagreeable situation»

trying

adjective annoying, hard, taxing, difficult, tough, upsetting, irritating, fatiguing, stressful, aggravating (informal), troublesome, exasperating, arduous, tiresome, vexing, irksome, wearisome, bothersome The whole business has been very trying.
easy, simple, calming, straightforward, no trouble, painless, undemanding, no bother

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

trying

adjective

Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength:

arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, weighty.

Translations

شاقمُتْعِب

otravnýúmorný

idegekre menõ

òreytandi, erfiîursem reynir á òolrifinn; òreytandi

úmorný

bıktırıcıcan sıkıcısabır taşıranzor

trying

[ˈtraɪɪŋ] ADJ [time, situation, circumstances] → difícil; [experience, day] → duro; [person] → latoso, pesado

Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

trying

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

try

(trai) verb

1. to attempt or make an effort (to do, get etc). He tried to answer the questions; Let’s try and climb that tree!

2. to test; to make an experiment (with) in order to find out whether something will be successful, satisfactory etc. She tried washing her hair with a new shampoo; Try one of these sweets.

3. to judge (someone or their case) in a court of law. The prisoners were tried for murder.

4. to test the limits of; to strain. You are trying my patience.

noun – plural tries –

1. an attempt or effort. Have a try (at the exam). I’m sure you will pass.

2. in rugby football, an act of putting the ball on the ground behind the opponents’ goal-line. Our team scored three tries.

ˈtrier noun

a person who keeps on trying, who does not give up. He’s not very good, but he’s a trier.

ˈtrying adjective

1. difficult; causing strain or anxiety. Having to stay such a long time in hospital must be very trying.

2. (of people) stretching one’s patience to the limit; annoying. She’s a very trying woman!

try on

to put on (clothes etc) to see if they fit. She tried on a new hat.

try out

to test (something) by using it. We are trying out new teaching methods.

Would you mind trying again? (US)
Can you try again? (UK)
Would you mind trying again later? (US)
Can you try again later? (UK)

Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

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Other forms: tryingly

Use the adjective trying to describe an experience that is exasperating or difficult. Babysitting rascally kids for hours can be a trying ordeal.

If you’ve had a trying week, you’ll be relieved and happy when Friday night finally arrives. Trying things can be upsetting, tricky, or strenuous. This word comes from a sense of the verb try that means «to make severe demands on a person, or on a person’s patience.» The first recorded use of trying was in the early 18th century.

Definitions of trying

“fell upon
trying times”

Synonyms:

difficult, hard

not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
adjective

extremely irritating to the nerves

“a
trying day at the office”

synonyms:

nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful

disagreeable

not to your liking

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

try +‎ -ing

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.ɪŋ/
Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ

Adjective[edit]

trying (comparative more trying, superlative most trying)

Difficult to endure; arduous.
- 1969, Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson (lyrics and music), “Tryin’ Times”, in First Take, performed by Roberta Flack:
  
  Tryin’ times, what the world is talkin’ about / You got confusion all over the land, yeah
Irritating, stressful or bothersome.

Translations[edit]

Difficult to endure; arduous

irritating, stressful or bothersome

Verb[edit]

trying

present participle of try

Noun[edit]

trying (plural tryings)

(philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
- 2006, Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility, page 145:
  
  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.
- 2021, William Guss, gilwus‎^[1]:
  
  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.

Anagrams[edit]

tyring

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adjective

extremely annoying, difficult, or the like; straining one’s patience and goodwill to the limit: a trying day; a trying experience.

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Origin of trying

1570–80 for general sense; 1710–20 for current sense; try + -ing²

OTHER WORDS FROM trying

try·ing·ly, adverbtry·ing·ness, nounun·try·ing, adjective

Words nearby trying

truth-value, truth-value gap, Truth will out, try, tryhard, trying, trying plane, tryke, try line, tryma, try on

Words related to trying

arduous, demanding, irritating, strenuous, stressful, taxing, tricky, troublesome, upsetting, vexing, aggravating, annoying, exacting, exasperating, fatiguing, rough, exigent, hard, irksome, onerous

How to use trying in a sentence

Compounding that is the overwhelming feeling of exhaustion that many of us feel after such a trying period.
It’s going to be an emotionally trying time as they shop for loved ones who cannot be in the same place with them.
Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.
Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.

He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.
I think if you keep trying to do things the same way it becomes diminishing returns.
All of my stories are about people trying hard not to grow up.
Mrs. Jolly Robin had often wished—when she was trying to feed a rapidly-growing family—that she could hunt forp.
Alone Orlean lay trying vainly to forget something—something that stood like a spectre before her eyes.
It may be fifty or a hundred centuries since men, although they were fully grown up, still went on trying to learn.
Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
I shipped for a voyage to Japan and China, and spent several more years trying to penetrate the forbidden fastnesses of Tibet.

British Dictionary definitions for trying

adjective

upsetting, difficult, or annoyinga trying day at the office

Derived forms of trying

tryingly, adverbtryingness, noun

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