untroubled

[ uhn-truhb-uhld ]

adjective

1. without trouble, discomfort, or disturbance: He was untroubled by daily setbacks.

   an easy, untroubled life;

   He was untroubled by daily setbacks.

untroubled

/ ʌnˈtrʌbləd /

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of untroubled¹

First recorded in 1480–90; un- ¹( def ) + trouble ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

For people haunted by recurring nightmares, untroubled sleep would be a dream come true.

From Science News

Many Americans were untroubled by the ruling, and unfazed by the news of deaths in faraway northern Yemen.

From 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.

From Time

The Fuhrer may have fallen but his ideology persists in this redoubt of Nazism, untroubled by a sympathetic Argentine regime.

From The Daily Beast

No one had any difficulties sleeping the deep, untroubled slumber of the brave and the just.

From The Daily Beast

As for flying off the fiscal cliff, Norquist sounds untroubled.

From The Daily Beast

My guess is that Benjamin Rush would have disliked it, while Benjamin Franklin would have been untroubled—but who knows?

From The Daily Beast

If anybody ever deserved an untroubled berth as an AEI scholar, it was DeMuth.

From The Daily Beast

Her eyes were very bright, no shadows in their depths; she returned his gaze with untroubled frankness.

From Project Gutenberg

Here are a pair who are untroubled by curious glances; the nearer houses of the village are quite close by.

From Project Gutenberg

On the way, Don Rodrigue makes love to her assiduously, but the young girl's heart seems untroubled.

From Project Gutenberg

We conversed upon the subject, and the probability of our soon sharing their untroubled sleep.

From Project Gutenberg

But with a faith, untroubled by abuse,That honors those who put the rest to shame!

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• placid
• unconcerned
• unperturbed
• unruffled