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What is another word for
bothering
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▲
Noun
The act of deliberately pestering or annoying someone
The playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks
Verb
(
usually used in third person form "gets"
)
Annoying or irritating (someone)
(
clausal, followed by for or about
)
Placing an emphasis of concern, interest or importance on someone or something
Present participle for to cause unease to one's mental or emotional state
Present participle for to go to the trouble of doing something
Present participle for to demand earnestly or pressingly
Present participle for to be involved in
Present participle for to persuade forcefully
Present participle for to interfere in matters that are not one's concern
Present participle for to continue to bring up as a point of contention
Present participle for to approach and speak to boldly or aggressively
Present participle for to damage, erode, or destroy by friction or use
Present participle for to impede the work or progress of
Present participle for to intrude or interfere on a conversation or activity
Present participle for suffer violent involuntary contraction of the muscles, producing contortion of the body or limbs
Adjective
Intended to provoke or make fun of someone in a harrassive way
Preventing concentration or diverting attention
Characterized by, or tending to cause, agitation or anxiety
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Noun
▲
The act of deliberately pestering or annoying someone
vexation
aggravation
pestering
bedevilment
harassment
harrying
importunity
botheration
bugging
teasing
irritation
exasperation
annoying
disturbing
annoyance
disturbance
agitation
perturbation
provocation
hassle
persecution
bother
molestation
trouble
problem
badgering
torment
grief
provoking
irking
vexing
intimidation
pressure
pressurization
US
pressurisation
UK
distraction
needling
taunting
affront
offence
UK
plaguing
nettling
injury
grievance
insult
niggling
insults
indignity
disruption
interruption
being rubbed up the wrong way
offense
US
brickbat
interference
confusion
stirring
ruffling
hindrance
roiling
whisking
derangement
inconvenience
convulsion
intrusion
dislocation
churning up
stirring up
nuisance
coercion
hounding
bullying
galling
discrimination
oppression
cyberbullying
maltreatment
victimisation
UK
mistreatment
victimization
US
aggro
irritant
pest
headache
trial
difficulty
frustration
pain
snag
infuriation
irk
thorn
rub
bugbear
pip
ruffle
peeve
irksomeness
gall
distress
affliction
hang-up
worry
hair shirt
fair cow
pain in the bum
pain in the backside
pet peeve
pain in the rear
pain in the neck
more ❯
“It was the constant
bothering
of his younger brother that he felt was a factor in the breakdown of their relationship.”
Noun
▲
The playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks
ribbing
teasing
badgering
badinage
banter
chaff
disturbing
exasperating
harassing
irritating
joking
kidding
mocking
plaguing
provoking
raillery
taunt
taunting
tickling
tormenting
vexing
repartee
jesting
joshing
persiflage
backchat
wordplay
quips
witticisms
crosstalk
drollery
sallies
ripostes
give-and-take
witty conversation
witty remarks
bons mots
pleasantry
wit
witticism
mockery
wisecracks
swordplay
jocularity
ragging
bantering
wisecracking
kidology
josh
asteism
borak
cut and thrust
ridicule
chaffing
quipping
jeering
derision
fun
bants
play
exchange
dissing
chitchat
gossip
small talk
playful jab
more ❯
Verb
▲
(
usually used in third person form "gets"
)
Annoying or irritating (someone)
getting
annoying
irritating
exasperating
angering
irking
vexing
inflaming
putting out
nettling
needling
provoking
incensing
infuriating
maddening
rubbing up the wrong way
aggravating
peeving
miffing
riling
getting to
hacking off
giving someone the hump
driving mad
driving crazy
driving nuts
making someone see red
winding up
agitating
bugging
narking
getting across
teeing off
perturbing
ticking off
displeasing
eating
grating
ruffling
burning up
chafing
disturbing
frustrating
enraging
galling
firing up
upsetting
getting in someone's hair
getting on someone's nerves
getting on someone's tits
getting on your nerves
getting someone's back up
getting someone's dander up
getting someone's goat
getting someone's hackles up
getting someone's wick
getting under someone's skin
getting up your nose
gnawing
harrying
making someone's hackles rise
making your blood boil
rattling someone's cage
ruffling someone's feathers
trying someone's patience
troubling
harassing
worrying
tormenting
plaguing
hassling
pestering
distressing
persecuting
piquing
afflicting
bedevilling
UK
bedeviling
US
riding
nagging
badgering
fretting
rankling
rasping
teasing
spiting
hounding
offending
frosting
griping
besetting
oppressing
discomposing
giving a hard time
torturing
graveling
gravelling
driving up the wall
disquieting
agonizing
US
burdening
itching
paining
goading
rattling
stressing
flustering
harrowing
agonising
UK
dismaying
hurting
perplexing
disconcerting
beleaguering
outraging
unsettling
fazing
baiting
grieving
affronting
trying
antagonizing
US
discommoding
racking
fussing
ailing
bumming out
concerning
getting at
getting under your skin
hacking you off
getting in your hair
depressing
molesting
exacerbating
roiling
straining
inconveniencing
mortifying
giving someone grief
antagonising
UK
dogging
wounding
haunting
incommoding
humping
discomfiting
discomforting
saddening
distracting
niggling
picking on
gnawing at
flurrying
disgusting
getting on one's nerves
taunting
unhinging
anguishing
cursing
alarming
besieging
unnerving
driving round the bend
chivvying
heckling
aggrieving
devilling
deviling
mithering
disgruntling
getting your back up
putting your back up
weighing down
rubbing the wrong way
hectoring
frazzling
distempering
appalling
confusing
bullying
rankling with
getting your goat
causing suffering to
making angry
stinging
insulting
discombobulating
driving to distraction
getting on your wick
making waves
confounding
excruciating
disobliging
chagrining
pursuing
chivying
exercising
taxing
shaking
ragging
driving round the twist
disheartening
weirding out
lying heavy on
freaking out
grating on
eating at
making somebody's hackles rise
nudging
discountenancing
stewing
derailing
throwing
hagriding
embarrassing
ribbing
dissatisfying
ridiculing
chaffing
turning off
discouraging
making anxious
trying your patience
cutting to the quick
shocking
blighting
fearing
intimidating
making cross
frightening
hazing
alaruming
sweating
undoing
mocking
affecting
egging on
importuning
crucifying
dispiriting
giving someone the pip
making uneasy
dejecting
burning
raising your hackles
keeping on at
weighing heavily on
going on at
keeping after
stirring up
throwing off balance
ruffling one's feathers
eating away at
daunting
assailing
horrifying
dissing
traumatizing
US
sickening
demoralizing
US
smiting
crushing
disrupting
panicking
scaring
puzzling
bewildering
obsessing
iring
madding
enflaming
working on
casting down
abrading
injuring
getting up someone's nose
nagging at
hurting somebody's feelings
giving a bad time
traumatising
UK
sending into a rage
steaming up
getting your dander up
wearing on
preying on your mind
putting down
demoralising
UK
intruding upon
razzing
breaking
gibing
nonplussing
henpecking
interrupting
pricking
wearying
nauseating
cheesing off
embittering
beating
browbeating
dunning
hitting where one lives
hanging over
tantalizing
US
pothering
causing anxiety to
getting your hackles up
making miserable
driving bananas
jarring on
putting someone's nose out of joint
imposing on
tantalising
UK
dumping on
bending someone's ear
hanging up
putting to trouble
driving you up the wall
causing trouble to
putting off
joshing
bantering
roasting
rallying
slighting
brooding
souring
scandalizing
US
dampening
guying
testing
overwhelming
devastating
flummoxing
jarring
desolating
victimizing
US
slapping
repelling
confronting
wringing
fuddling
attacking
dumbfounding
stumping
getting across someone
exciting
pressing
flooring
martyring
debilitating
spooking
feeling uneasy
making uncomfortable
messing with
rattling one's cage
harping on at
getting down
setting one's teeth on edge
making unhappy
scandalising
UK
putting in a spot
weighing on
causing discomfort to
shaking up
throwing off
poking fun at
making sport of
losing sleep
breathing down someone's neck
mixing up
trying the patience of
rubbing you up the wrong way
putting on the spot
getting a rise out of
working up
victimising
UK
taking the piss out of
making fun of
causing anguish to
making wretched
deriding
jeering
joking
baffling
jiving
sapping
twitting
facing
mystifying
bemusing
scolding
funning
stupefying
disrespecting
kidding
domineering
quizzing
disaffecting
abashing
revolting
tiring
repulsing
bamboozling
stretching
leading on
fooling around
carping
draining
heating up
moving
berating
mistreating
terrorizing
US
reviling
chilling
chillin
festering
foxing
disorienting
buffaloing
addling
muddling
mazing
criticizing
US
imposing
preoccupying
reproaching
despairing
asking for it
harming
pressurizing
US
shucking
chiding
stirring
dazing
befogging
rousing
sledging
crazing
disappointing
befuddling
dashing
upbraiding
gripping
slamming
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
suffering
bringing down
posing
muddying
preying on
picking at
pressing down on
spoofing
pushing
boring
stunning
concerning oneself
prodding
taking
bumming
shattering
indisposing
abasing
dampening spirits
fuming
cowing
wronging
umbraging
punishing
biting
visiting
making it hot for someone
having on
giving the business
making a monkey of
taking aback
pecking at
tearing
making it tough
torturing yourself
flipping out
beating down
getting in a sweat
bleeding
jangling
going to your head
sticking in one's craw
pulling one's leg
hacking
taking the mickey
balling up
criticising
UK
getting in a fluster
driving insane
making someone scratch their head
inflicting anguish on
ragging on
making things hot for someone
tormenting yourself
intoxicating
jeering at
getting in a tizz
getting someone
giving offence to
possessing
making someone fed up
getting worked up
blowing your mind
getting in a tizzy
getting in a panic
getting overwrought
getting in a flap
losing sleep over
jibing at
wearing
stressing out
getting in a lather
terrorising
UK
giving trouble
causing concern to
making discontented
acerbating
causing agony to
niggling at
getting on the wrong side of
knocking for six
scoffing at
wearing out
getting in a state
making punchy
doing in
swipeing at
pressurising
UK
causing anxiety
getting steamed up
buffeting
dulling
buffetting
inebriating
deranging
unmanning
startling
damaging
exhausting
browning off
occupying
bedogging
causing disquiet to
causing annoyance to
causing resentment to
wigging
getting on someone
shaming
running up the wrong way
cutting
interfering
meddling
riling up
finding fault
empurpling
giving someone hell
kidding around
pushing someon's buttons
messing
barracking
booing
humiliating
getting on the nerves of
getting in the hair of
steaming
psyching out
resenting
eating up
insisting on
inciting
pushing one's buttons
tangling
deeply upsetting
inflicting trauma
searing
irritating greatly
grilling
consternating
unquieting
making fretful
making restless
shouting down
making it tough for
cutting up
strapping
doing a number on
arousing anxiety in
pushing buttons
nit-picking
chevying
setting on edge
putting on edge
hitting a sour note
getting on
jarring upon
relucting
grating upon
wearing upon
occupying thoughts
setting on
taking a rise out of
starting
setting off
working into lather
belabouring
UK
scorning
weighing
making an enemy of somebody
taking over
taking control of
lying heavily on
kicking up a stink
kicking up a fuss
getting even
upsetting the applecart
grizzling
putting to some trouble
scarring
subjugating
lowering
suppressing
hissing
dwelling on
biting one's nails
getting stressed
having qualms
bringing pressure to bear on
tiring out
leaning on
putting pressure on
making severe demands on
making demands on
putting a strain on
curdling
reminding
insisting
throwing a curve
knocking props out
unstringing
hurting deeply
causing pain to
scratching around
yapping at
searching high heaven
noodging
bullyragging
driving you crazy
making your gorge rise
sweating out
rousting
putting
gnawing away
gnawing away at
jerking around
demeaning
disenchanting
jesting
envenoming
terrifying
accosting
petting
tiffing
huffing
sneering
discontenting
making livid
driving you out of your mind
driving you off your head
making you see red
driving you round the twist
driving out of mind
driving you to distraction
making somebody's blood boil
driving you round the bend
sticking the knife into
singling out
hunting
exiling
expelling
dragooning
getting the knife into
keying up
incapacitating
rocking the boat
laying up
cramping
turning on
turning
flipping
making a scene
becoming bored
grating at
having had enough
losing patience
sticking it to
giving it to
dishing it out
dishing out
overcharging
devitalizing
slandering
dispraising
offending morals of
abusing
abominating
giving the cold shoulder
filling with loathing
giving a zinger
grinding
disparaging
pushing the buttons of
thumbing nose at
causing suffering
causing anguish
causing sorrow
lambasting
mourning
causing offense
mispleasing
playing dirty
zinging
shouting at
butting in
shouting catcalls at
making game of
alienating
poisoning
causing to panic
quipping
flouting
disdaining
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
rubbing salt in wound
defeating
humbling
overcoming
making awkward
making ashamed
making self-conscious
owning
showing up
wisecracking
causing inconvenience to
imposing upon
creating difficulties for
disengaging
detaching
sending over the edge
separating
disconnecting
uncoupling
unhitching
unfastening
scouting
hurting the feelings of
japing
tearing to pieces
entangling
hampering
knocking the wind out of
harshing one's mellow
aggressing
putting out of countenance
throwing into a tizzy
catching one short
putting in a hole
letting down
gagging
jumping on one's case
giving the needle
falling on
putting the squeeze on
falling upon
starting in on
inflicting
horning in on
intruding on
butting in on
interfering with
barging in on
overriding
tyrannizing
US
jollying
breaking one's heart
belaboring
US
bombarding
bearing down on
casting a pall over
damping down
yucking
yukking
moping
making blue
putting into a funk
chastening
breaking the heart of
dragging down
putting a damper on
pretending
disillusioning
befalling
wreaking
wrecking
louting
jabbing
digging
enslaving
tyrannizing over
dominating
tyrannising
UK
twittering
sorrowing
upsetting oneself
sighing
pining
gibing at
sneering at
playing
fooling about
feeling unhappy
making resentful
jaundicing
empoisoning
making bitter
casting a gloom upon
dragging
damping
running down
making gloomy
enervating
darkening
making sad
distressing oneself
knocking sideways
pouring cold water on
throwing cold water on
bringing tears to your eyes
carrying a heavy load
knocking the stuffing out of
breaking someone's heart
harshing someone's mellow
giving someone the blues
reducing to tears
making desolate
making despondent
getting into a dither
sweating it out
bearing down
dashing hopes
keeping under
disadvantaging
tensing
overtaxing
pressuring
overstretching
worsening
discommodating
putting into a flap
putting someone off their stroke
making nervous
causing someone to lose their composure
throwing into a tizz
throwing into tizzy
avenging
descending on
descending upon
bringing down on
forcing upon
making ill
giving someone bother
causing someone difficulty
making someone go out of his way
making rancorous
acidulating
venoming
estranging
bittering
having an adverse effect on
striking down
going against the grain
making unwell
causing illness to
causing problems
disagreeing
crossing
hindering
impeding
putting on trial
crunching
tensing up
overdoing
pushing to the limit
overextending
making tense
causing to feel mental strain
causing to feel emotional strain
putting in traction
carping at
satirizing
US
wildering
striking
fogging
flabbergasting
dithering
obfuscating
surprising
snowing
chiacking
enduring
abiding
exerting
stomaching
dreading
standing
going
tolerating
brooking
making your head spin
stymieing
bringing up short
disorientating
causing to be at a stand
staggering
messing with one's head
setting someone thinking
staying the course
sticking it out
smoking
rotting
snapping
sounding
flouting at
poking mullock at
messing around
goofing on
satirising
UK
poking borak at
laughing at
pulling someone's leg
putting on
slinging off at
sending up
flirting with
making jokes about
getting in a tiz-woz
going through the mill
more ❯
“These journalists constantly
bother
me with their ridiculous questions.”
Verb
▲
(
clausal, followed by for or about
)
Placing an emphasis of concern, interest or importance on someone or something
caring
worrying
appreciating
favoring
US
enjoying
minding
concerning oneself with
concerning yourself
favouring
UK
getting worked up
giving a damn
having regard for
interesting oneself in
regarding highly
taking to
troubling oneself
troubling oneself with
worrying oneself
burdening oneself with
giving a hang
giving a hoot
giving a monkey's
giving a rap
giving a tinker's curse
giving a tinker's damn
losing sleep over
concerning oneself
troubling yourself
stressing
fussing
fretting
sweating
stewing
fearing
troubling
occupying oneself
burdening oneself
going to the trouble
busying yourself
losing sleep
“Johannes had mentioned how busy his mother was these days, how she didn't have time to
bother
about what the apartment looked like.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause unease to one's mental or emotional state
disturbing
upsetting
worrying
unsettling
perturbing
agitating
distressing
discomposing
concerning
alarming
disquieting
dismaying
flurrying
fussing
discomforting
distracting
distempering
ailing
frazzling
unhinging
troubling
exercising
alaruming
hagriding
undoing
derailing
disconcerting
unnerving
vexing
annoying
rattling
fazing
fretting
discombobulating
galling
trying
freaking out
weirding out
making anxious
gnawing at
working up
lying heavy on
weighing down
causing anxiety
flustering
ruffling
discomfiting
confusing
confounding
perplexing
nonplussing
bewildering
abashing
discountenancing
shaking
throwing
daunting
embarrassing
making uneasy
appalling
shaking up
spooking
scaring
throwing off balance
putting off
discouraging
mortifying
puzzling
getting to
taking aback
frightening
frustrating
chagrining
muddling
addling
flummoxing
stirring up
mystifying
disheartening
dispiriting
startling
psyching out
exciting
putting someone off their stroke
bustling
demoralizing
US
dumbfounding
irking
making nervous
demoralising
UK
depressing
provoking
hassling
bugging
shocking
paining
disordering
hurrying
panicking
chilling
chillin
unmanning
rousing
afflicting
dashing
horrifying
destabilizing
US
sickening
terrifying
terrorizing
US
cowing
pothering
crazing
disappointing
disarranging
deranging
affecting
surprising
awing
aweing
intimidating
harassing
irritating
jolting
overawing
chafing
deterring
discommoding
throwing off
fidgeting
fidgetting
terrorising
UK
making waves
making uncomfortable
baffling
unbalancing
setting someone back on their heels
destabilising
UK
pulling the rug from under
pulling the rug out from under
putting someone off their stride
putting into a flap
throwing into a tizz
taking the wind out of your sails
heating
fluttering
nettling
hustling
besetting
tormenting
quickening
racking
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
overwhelming
cursing
frenzying
pestering
needling
subduing
putting on edge
flipping
fuddling
dementing
browbeating
bullying
putting out
stressing
fearing
making fretful
making a scene
stewing
sweating
putting out of countenance
rattling one's cage
bamboozling
befuddling
blinding
flapping
sending into a spin
disorientating
inflaming
making self-conscious
worsting
taking pains
astonishing
dizzying
inciting
moving
labouring over
arousing
stimulating
fermenting
getting worked up
getting in a stew
dejecting
disorganizing
burning up
disarraying
disrupting
crushing
catching unawares
catching off balance
mixing up
causing someone to lose their composure
giving someone grief
egging on
causing anxiety to
pushing buttons
turning on
bugging up
making flip
knocking off balance
prostrating
repressing
drooping
casting down
making despondent
weighing heavily on
making downhearted
beating down
dampening the spirits of
breaking one's heart
putting a damper on
saddening
causing to lose heart
affrighting
disillusioning
disenchanting
disgruntling
paralysing
UK
paralyzing
US
knocking for six
knocking sideways
putting the wind up
letting down
giving a turn
fouling up
screwing up
filling with consternation
messing up
throwing into a tizzy
more ❯
“Giorgio's constant obsession with ancient aliens is starting to
bother
me.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to go to the trouble of doing something
exerting oneself
fussing over
making an effort
putting yourself out
taking pains
taking the trouble
making a fuss about
going out of one's way
going to the trouble of
taking the time
going to trouble
making the effort
inconveniencing yourself
worrying about
exerting
troubling
going to the trouble
exerting yourself
going to the effort of
“The privy council had to remind those who did
bother
to turn up not to carry guns or to engage in feuding with one another.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to demand earnestly or pressingly
pushing
pressing
urging
encouraging
influencing
persuading
advising
compelling
imploring
driving
hustling
promoting
begging
hounding
inciting
spurring
advocating
constraining
expediting
harassing
badgering
pestering
beseeching
inducing
inspanning
prodding
soliciting
hassling
motivating
nagging
recommending
harrying
inspiring
prompting
adjuring
goading
nudging
propelling
entreating
exhorting
impelling
insisting
keying up
speeding up
trying to persuade
putting up to
pouring it on
insisting on
pushing for
turning on
appealing to
selling one on
egging on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be involved in
concerning
involving
interesting
occupying
busying
committing
devoting
engaging
immersing
preoccupying
associating
connecting
consuming
embroiling
implicating
miring
absorbing
attending
binding
distracting
drawing
engrossing
enmeshing
entangling
enwrapping
hooking
imputing
inculpating
linking
participating
wrapping
throwing
Verb
▲
Present participle for to persuade forcefully
pressuring
forcing
coercing
bulldozing
influencing
pressing
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
badgering
compelling
dragooning
browbeating
driving
intimidating
persuading
pushing
bullying
hassling
hounding
impelling
pestering
squeezing
goading
harassing
harrying
impressing
nagging
obliging
prodding
urging
bludgeoning
brainwashing
constraining
obligating
railroading
blackjacking
hustling
muscling
sandbagging
insisting
making
politicking
selling
fast-talking
leaning on
prevailing on
putting pressure on
strong-arming
using pressure on
coming at
press-ganging
pushing around
putting the squeeze on
turning on the heat
working over
putting the screws on
twisting one's arm
twisting someone's arm
breathing down someone's neck
bringing pressure to bear on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to interfere in matters that are not one's concern
butting in
intruding
interfering
interrupting
meddling
obtruding
poking
prying
snooping
nosing
messing
interloping
intermeddling
interjecting
disturbing
pestering
barging in
cutting in
muscling in
breaking in
mucking about
mucking around
bursting in
chiselling in
charging in
getting into the act
poking one's face in
sticking your nose in
sticking your oar in
putting your two cents in
encroaching
intervening
invading
trespassing
interposing
horning in
infringing
intruding on
encroaching on
impinging
chiming in
crashing
messing with
meddling in
putting your oar in
entrenching on
enquiring
UK
inquiring
trespassing on
poking your nose in
horning in on
gatecrashing
chipping in
mixing in
nosing into
imposing
impinging on
violating
making inroads
interfering in
pushing in
stepping in
breaking in on
crashing the gates
overstepping
infringing on
muscling in on
interceding
tampering
kibitzing
stickybeaking
encumbering
peeking
mousing
sidewalk-superintending
enquiring impertinently
poking around
worming in
thrusting oneself
poking about
coming uninvited
messing around
dabbling in
fooling with
poking one's nose into
getting involved
sticking one's nose into
butting in on
obtruding on
bursting in on
meddling with
sneaking in
imposing oneself on
involving oneself
intruding into
bugging
impeding
hindering
entrenching
examining
inspecting
advancing
molesting
poking into
interpolating
denting
penetrating
imposing oneself
poaching
moving in
abusing rights
nosing around
creeping up on
disrupting
forcing yourself
entering without permission
nosing in
breaking into
foisting oneself
infiltrating
creeping
entering
encroaching upon
intruding upon
insinuating oneself
interposing oneself
coming between
putting in two cents
obtruding into
cutting through
making inroads into
sneaking into
coming uninvited to
slipping into
showing up uninvited
intermediating
peering
spying
peeping
exclaiming
barging in on
speaking
remarking
parenthesizing
commenting
having your say
interrupting with
butting into
intervening in
kibitzing on
barging into
prying into
tampering with
interceding in
getting involved in
doing some detective work
interfering with
gossipping
gossiping
stirring the pot
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to continue to bring up as a point of contention
harping on
chuntering
complaining
dwelling on
going on
grumbling
keeping on
moaning
nagging
ragging
repeating
whining
whingeing
disturbing
dwelling upon
harping upon
pestering
beefing
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
quibbling
grousing
grouching
criticizing
US
censuring
bleating
griping
niggling
kvetching
bellyaching
nitpicking
disparaging
denouncing
knocking
condemning
decrying
fussing
hollering
croaking
repining
squealing
murmuring
yammering
inveighing
yauping
crabbing
keening
whimpering
screaming
reproaching
growling
grizzling
squawking
grumping
kicking
wailing
caterwauling
yowling
maundering
yawping
muttering
mithering
creating
picking on
hypercriticizing
nit-picking
sounding off
pecking
criticising
UK
kicking up a fuss
splitting hairs
picking holes
finding fault
objurgating
carping
finding fault with
panning
objecting
picking at
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to approach and speak to boldly or aggressively
accosting
approaching
buttonholing
waylaying
halting
hounding
stopping
catching
collaring
questioning
addressing
crossing
detaining
flagging
grabbing
hailing
importuning
interviewing
talking to
shouting to
speaking to
calling to
running into
taking aside
cross-examining
discussing something with
initiating a discussion with
whistling for
Verb
▲
Present participle for to damage, erode, or destroy by friction or use
wearing
abrading
chafing
eroding
rasping
rubbing
fraying
galling
frazzling
fretting
scraping
scratching
grazing
corrading
corroding
scouring
consuming
grinding
scuffing
wasting
deteriorating
dissolving
crumbling
impairing
using
decaying
fading
overusing
overworking
taxing
undermining
weathering
wearing away
eating away
wearing out
wearing thin
becoming worn
wearing down
worn through
biting into
eating away at
rubbing away
gnawing away
becoming threadbare
crumbling away
grinding away
rubbing down
washing away
wasting away
gnawing away at
cutting down
scraping off
using up
going to seed
Verb
▲
Present participle for to impede the work or progress of
encumbering
hampering
cramping
hindering
handicapping
impeding
inhibiting
obstructing
restricting
clogging
inconveniencing
checking
retarding
trammelling
trammeling
constraining
delaying
embarrassing
fettering
handcuffing
hobbling
hog-tying
limiting
manacling
overloading
restraining
shackling
short-circuiting
slowing
slowing down
stalling
stymieing
disadvantaging
incommoding
blocking
bogging down
charging
discommoding
holding back
holding up
interfering with
oppressing
tying up
weighing down
hanging up
making difficult
saddling with
getting in the way
Verb
▲
Present participle for to intrude or interfere on a conversation or activity
interrupting
intruding
interposing
interjecting
intervening
interfering
crashing
heckling
disturbing
cutting in
breaking in
butting in
insinuating oneself
chiming in
chipping in
barging in
muscling in
horning in
cutting in on
intruding on
edging in
intervening in
working in
barging in on
putting in
breaking in on
butting in on
chiming in on
horning in on
busting in
chipping in on
crowding in
muscling in on
breaking train of thought
Verb
▲
Present participle for suffer violent involuntary contraction of the muscles, producing contortion of the body or limbs
convulsing
jerking
shuddering
agitating
shaking
bucketing
jiggling
joggling
jolting
jouncing
juddering
quaking
quivering
vibrating
wabbling
wobbling
contorting
twisting
working
disturbing
rocking
shaking uncontrollably
shaking violently
stirring
tormenting
trembling
unsettling
writhing
thrashing about
going into spasms
shaking up
suffering a fit
Adjective
▲
Intended to provoke or make fun of someone in a harrassive way
teasing
harassing
plaguing
provoking
disturbing
exasperating
irritating
taunting
tormenting
vexing
provocative
bothersome
aggravating
annoying
irksome
galling
troublesome
pesky
upsetting
trying
disagreeable
unpleasant
nettlesome
nagging
plaguy
burdensome
maddening
displeasing
vexatious
tedious
wearisome
tiresome
unwelcome
perturbing
infuriating
rankling
unsettling
peeving
infernal
troubling
pestiferous
pestilent
abrasive
riling
antagonizing
US
inconvenient
distressing
grating
confounded
chafing
carking
awkward
difficult
frustrating
nettling
pestilential
enraging
niggling
jarring
harrying
rebarbative
plaguey
pesty
antagonising
UK
cussed
wearing
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
boring
agitating
discommoding
bedevilling
UK
discomposing
disconcerting
discomforting
worrisome
worrying
unpleasing
agonizing
US
unnerving
unamusing
punchable
agonising
UK
uncongenial
bedeviling
US
troublous
disappointing
mean
afflicting
ugly
wicked
objectionable
traumatic
wretched
repugnant
thorny
painful
irking
deplorable
discouraging
challenging
forbidding
puzzling
lamentable
knotty
taxing
problematic
incommodious
tricky
concerning
festering
antipathetic
demanding
unsatisfying
unattractive
impossible
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Preventing concentration or diverting attention
distracting
disturbing
unsettling
confusing
perturbing
bothersome
dismaying
disconcerting
bewildering
disrupting
disruptive
distractive
diversionary
diverting
intrusive
off-putting
distressing
awkward
upsetting
embarrassing
troubling
discomfiting
uncomfortable
flustering
worrying
unnerving
alarming
perplexing
concerning
deceptive
deflecting
misleading
baffling
anxious-making
disheartening
unpleasant
discouraging
dispiriting
disappointing
displeasing
grim
difficult
horrific
depressing
unfortunate
awful
dreadful
testing
unwelcome
unhappy
parlous
melancholic
regrettable
dismal
unfavorable
US
shocking
austere
sad
unfavourable
UK
ghastly
unlucky
bad
glum
foreboding
horrible
agonising
UK
irritable
irksome
bleak
dire
sombre
UK
depressive
distressful
bitter
frustrating
macabre
somber
US
daunting
troubled
poignant
hopeless
cheerless
gloomy
ominous
unpropitious
distasteful
disagreeable
dreary
woeful
melancholy
sinister
morose
appalling
painful
inauspicious
distressed
frightening
tragic
sullen
troublesome
unkind
agonizing
US
mephitical
aggravating
hellish
uncongenial
irritating
annoying
unpleasing
abhorrent
unpalatable
repellant
galling
repellent
repugnant
loathsome
vexing
revulsive
unamusing
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Characterized by, or tending to cause, agitation or anxiety
uneasy
disturbing
tense
disquieting
unsettling
distressing
unnerving
anxious
fraught
worrisome
agitating
nervous
distressful
hairy
restless
creepy
worrying
upsetting
alarming
disconcerting
troubling
dismaying
concerning
perturbing
nerve-racking
nail-biting
nerve-wracking
difficult
embarrassing
uncomfortable
awkward
tricky
trying
stressful
thorny
unpleasant
frightening
charged
scary
irritating
sticky
annoying
troublesome
dodgy
sensitive
delicate
confronting
bothersome
harrowing
irksome
painful
ticklish
strained
knotty
antsy
disruptive
harassing
exciting
jittery
disagreeable
vexing
wearisome
insecure
apprehensive
intimidating
problematic
fretful
hard
flustering
discomfiting
prickly
volatile
vexatious
anxious-making
humiliating
touchy
cringey
cringeworthy
white-knuckle
cringe-making
edgy
troubled
perplexing
haunting
fearful
discomforting
distracting
barro
demoralising
UK
demoralizing
US
daunting
terrifying
off-putting
taxing
cliffhanging
dramatic
explosive
panicky
menacing
gut-wrenching
knife-edge
risky
uncertain
tricksy
tough
problematical
catchy
precarious
nasty
chancy
spiny
controversial
contentious
discouraging
discommoding
provoking
intrusive
severe
depressing
aggravating
onerous
sinister
tiresome
inconvenient
burdensome
tickly
torturous
galling
bitter
laborious
toilsome
dolorous
bumpy
rough
distressed
itchy
afflictive
incommodious
grievous
scratchy
dicey
causing discomfort
ill-fitting
compromising
dreadful
terrible
awful
horrible
appalling
horrifying
horrendous
ghastly
shocking
traumatic
forbidding
frightful
grim
dire
agonizing
US
bad
horrid
horrific
miserable
woeful
wretched
agonising
UK
dismal
nightmarish
atrocious
monstrous
troublous
macabre
harsh
sad
distasteful
gruesome
heartbreaking
doleful
tormenting
loathsome
abominable
hurtful
foul
direful
objectionable
tragic
grisly
startling
tragical
unpalatable
discomposing
excruciating
heartrending
vile
hellacious
chilling
fearsome
grave
deplorable
bleak
formidable
poor
heart-rending
hair-raising
rotten
cruel
lamentable
saddening
revolting
hostile
spine-chilling
redoubtable
hideous
poignant
gloomy
foreboding
offensive
savage
brutal
afflicting
unfortunate
execrable
lousy
regrettable
sombre
UK
somber
US
mean
pitiful
displeasing
lurid
sorry
solemn
unhappy
ruthless
stark
spooky
abysmal
jarring
dread
ferocious
disgusting
sickening
dreary
threatening
nagging
nauseating
ominous
heart-breaking
sober
odious
surprising
stupefying
vicious
oppressed
stunning
ugly
humourless
UK
humorless
US
dark
nauseous
merciless
astonishing
unwelcome
staggering
gross
mortifying
pathetic
disheartening
dangerous
unspeakable
outrageous
hopeless
repulsive
melancholy
astounding
petrifying
devastating
dispiriting
disgraceful
repellent
repugnant
pitiless
unbearable
amazing
impoverished
abhorrent
oppressive
grewsome
nightmare
pitiable
affecting
sour
drear
sorrowful
unsavory
US
obnoxious
fierce
rueful
repellant
yukky
yucky
detestable
rugged
godawful
unsavoury
UK
unpleasing
overwhelming
heinous
terrific
bewildering
wicked
glaring
baleful
mean-looking
scandalous
unlucky
cheerless
scaring
morose
joyless
drab
jolting
flabbergasting
inhospitable
dumbfounding
unwelcoming
obscene
comfortless
disappointing
awesome
uninviting
funereal
sedate
blindsiding
heartstopping
bodeful
imposing
poverty-stricken
dumfounding
rancid
evil
noisome
fulsome
noxious
intolerable
austere
relentless
stiff
icky
brooding
uncongenial
unlovely
awe-inspiring
mind-blowing
murderous
unrelenting
heavy
inhuman
searing
rigorous
bloodcurdling
intense
forlorn
from hell
eye-opening
jaw-dropping
causing fear
grotesque
unsightly
challenging
hateful
sullen
terrorizing
US
injurious
damaging
scarring
abject
unfavorable
US
unfavourable
UK
eerie
moving
adverse
disadvantageous
impressive
tremendous
pessimistic
crummy
destabilising
UK
destabilizing
US
shameful
terrorising
UK
black
crippling
punishing
punitive
unsatisfactory
stinking
unacceptable
undesirable
diabolical
unendurable
dour
wounding
harmful
egregious
very bad
unfriendly
uncool
grotty
grody
unappealing
sorrowing
mournful
touching
striking
powerful
massive
eldritch
negative
anguished
beastly
tear-jerking
terribly bad
stirring
blood-curdling
spine-tingling
overpowering
untoward
perilous
glowering
tearful
iniquitous
unbelievable
plaintive
teary
hardhanded
nefarious
sore
remorseless
great
all-powerful
extremely bad
intemperate
inclement
calamitous
flagrant
inadequate
disastrous
laughable
mind-boggling
hard to swallow
beyond belief
unheard of
extraordinary
flagitious
serious
inauspicious
unexpected
hard-hearted
remarkable
unforeseen
sudden
evil-looking
suggestive of evil
desolate
glum
crushing
depressive
melancholic
disconsolate
mirthless
dejecting
dispirited
dolesome
cold
lachrymose
heart-wrenching
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