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All nuisance synonyms

nui·sance
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noun nuisance

  • irritation — the act of irritating or the state of being irritated.
  • pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
  • annoyance — Annoyance is the feeling that you get when someone makes you feel fairly angry or impatient.
  • pest — a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest)
  • bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
  • trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • irritant — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
  • blister — A blister is a painful swelling on the surface of your skin. Blisters contain a clear liquid and are usually caused by heat or by something repeatedly rubbing your skin.
  • bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
  • botheration — bother
  • bum — Someone's bum is the part of their body which they sit on.
  • creep — When people or animals creep somewhere, they move quietly and slowly.
  • drag — drag and drop
  • drip — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
  • exasperation — A feeling of intense irritation or annoyance.
  • frump — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
  • gadfly — any of various flies, as a stable fly or warble fly, that bite or annoy domestic animals.
  • headache — a pain located in the head, as over the eyes, at the temples, or at the base of the skull.
  • inconvenience — the quality or state of being inconvenient.
  • infliction — the act of inflicting.
  • insect — any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
  • louse — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
  • nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
  • nudge — to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
  • offense — a violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.
  • pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
  • pill — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
  • plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
  • problem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
  • terror — intense, sharp, overmastering fear: to be frantic with terror.
  • vexation — the act of vexing.
  • besetment — the state or condition of being beset
  • pain in the neck — source of annoyance
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