aerumnōsus, a, um, adj. [aerumna], full of trouble or misery, suffering, wretched, miserable: salum, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 28, 67: inopes, aerumnosae, Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 39; so id. Ep. 4, 1, 32: miseros, afflictos, aerumnosos, calamitosos, Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 82; so id. Par. 2; id. Att. 3, 23 fin., once also in his Orations: infelix et aerumnosus, id. Verr. 2, 5, 62: nihil est aerumnosius, Sen. de Ira, 2, 7.
Sup.: non huic aerumnosissimo venenum illud fuisset, Cic. Clu. 71, 201; id. Att. 3, 23.