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trying Definition

try·ing (trī′iŋ)

adjective

that tries one's patience; annoying; exasperating; irksome

trying Related Forms
try′·ingly adverb
trying Synonyms

trying

modif.

troublesome, bothersome, irritating, tiring; see difficult 1, 2, severe 2.

trying Quotes

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)