What's another word for
What's the opposite of
Meaning of the word
Words that rhyme with
Sentences with the word
Translate
From English
To English
to
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cebuano
Chichewa
Chinese
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Esperanto
Estonian
Farsi
Filipino
Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian
Burmese
Nepali
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Scots Gaelic
Serbian
Sesotho
Shona
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
Find Words
All Words
2-Letter Words
3-Letter Words
4-Letter Words
5-Letter Words
6-Letter Words
7-Letter Words
8-Letter Words
9-Letter Words
10-Letter Words
11-Letter Words
12-Letter Words
13-Letter Words
14-Letter Words
Starting With
Ending With
Containing Exactly
Containing the Letters
Words With Friends
Scrabble
Crossword / Codeword
Use * for blank tiles (max 2)
Use * for blank spaces
Advanced Word Finder
Find the
Plural
Singular
Past Tense
Present Tense
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Noun
of
Pronounce the word
in
Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic
Bengali
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latin
Malay
Malayalam
Marathi
Nepali
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Find Names
Meaning of the name
Origin of the name
Names meaning
Names starting with
Names of origin
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions
Rhymes
Sentences
Translations
Find Words
Word Forms
Pronunciations
☀
Appearance
✓
Use device theme
✓
Dark theme
✓
Light theme
What is another word for
picking at
?
Need
synonyms for picking at
? Here's a list of
similar words
from our
thesaurus
that you can use instead.
Contexts
▼
▲
Present participle for to bother, harass, or annoy persistently
Present participle for to nag or scold, especially persistently
Present participle for to subject to meticulous examination
Present participle for to take small bites or nibbles at or out of
Present participle for to cause mental distress to
Present participle for to criticize or express contempt for
Present participle for to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct
Present participle for to toy or tinker with something, especially aimlessly
Present participle for to complain or express discontent in a wearisome manner
Present participle for to argue about petty and trivial matters
Present participle for to eat food, especially enthusiastically or greedily
… more ▼
▲
Verb
▲
Present participle for to bother, harass, or annoy persistently
harassing
badgering
pestering
bullying
toying with
finding fault with
fiddling with
hassling
harrying
needling
nagging
dogging
henpecking
heckling
prodding
keeping complaining to
working on
giving a hard time
picking on
pecking at
moaning at
harping on at
grumbling at
hounding
persecuting
riding
chivvying
teasing
hectoring
provoking
baiting
importuning
goading
criticizing
US
moaning on at
egging
scolding
bending someone's ear
criticising
UK
urging
upbraiding
busting someone's balls
finding fault
berating
taking it out on
going on at
nudging
keeping on at
breathing down someone's neck
busting chops
carping at
keeping after
gnawing at
more ❯
“Despite his attempts to ignore her, she continued to
pick at
him with her constant questions and criticisms.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to nag or scold, especially persistently
needling
hounding
dogging
nagging
henpecking
pecking at
badgering
harassing
pestering
hectoring
bullying
riding
tormenting
bothering
bugging
criticizing
US
scolding
berating
browbeating
carping
intimidating
domineering
niggling
cavilling
UK
picking on
chiding
criticising
UK
caviling
US
finding fault
irritating
giving a hard time
fussing
“She tends to
pick at
her children, constantly criticizing every little thing they do.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to subject to meticulous examination
analyzing
US
examining
analysing
UK
evaluating
exploring
scrutinising
UK
scrutinizing
US
studying
inspecting
researching
reviewing
considering
pondering
assaying
interpreting
investigating
probing
questioning
chewing over
delving into
digging into
going into
going over
going through
looking at
poring over
thinking about
thinking through
getting down to brass tacks
picking apart
determining
questing
viewing
regarding
discerning
perceiving
surveying
beholding
eyeballing
estimating
observing
weighing
dissecting
anatomizing
esteeming
treating
auditing
sifting
deconstructing
cutting
looking into
thinking of
looking upon
looking on
looking over
breaking down
enquiring into
inquiring into
sizing up
experimenting with
turning over
appraising
brainstorming
canvassing
checking out
weighing up
sounding out
taking stock of
working over
diving into
mulling over
brooding over
vetting
querying
prospecting
recceing
scouting
casing
interrogating
spying
bugging
reconnoitering
US
poking
frisking
tapping
searching
reconnoitring
UK
testing
following up
kicking around
excogitating
sorting out
scoping out
making enquiries about
sussing out
making inquiry
checking up on
listening in
checking over
conducting an enquiry into
feeling out
conducting an investigation into
deliberating on
prying into
reading into
checking up
probing into
checking into
searching for
searching into
cross-examining
inquiring about
looking at carefully
reading up on
staking out
poking around
nosing around
running down
asking questions of
doing research into
making inquiries about
putting to the test
putting questions to
searching the evidence concerning
trying to get to the bottom of
giving the once over
sifting the evidence concerning
giving the once-over
subjecting to an examination
pursuing
enquiring about
finding out about
asking questions about
making enquiries into
getting back to
chasing up
identifying
trying
having a look at
opening up
leaving no stone unturned
wading into
testing the waters
taking a look at
underseeking
wiretapping
muckraking
monitoring
contemplating
perusing
meditating
cogitating
turning
perpending
revolving
ruminating
deliberating
debating
conducting research into
figuring
wrestling with
thinking out
comparing
conducting a survey of
experimenting
entertaining
thinking over
doing research
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to take small bites or nibbles at or out of
pecking
biting
nibbling
nipping
picking
eating
eating listlessly
picking over
playing with
toying with
eating sparingly of
sniffing at
eating like a bird
showing no appetite for
taking very small bites from
pecking at
grazing
cropping
taking small bites
taking small bites from
snacking on
grazing on
gnawing
gnawing at
snapping
shearing
munching
nabbing at
sinking your teeth into
taking a chunk out of
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause mental distress to
straining
distressing
troubling
irking
paining
stressing
worrying
harassing
hassling
trying
bothering
annoying
irritating
plaguing
harrying
bugging
badgering
disturbing
tormenting
provoking
nagging
aggravating
persecuting
hounding
bedevilling
UK
bedeviling
US
teasing
riding
fretting
chivvying
beleaguering
dogging
molesting
hectoring
deviling
devilling
besieging
importuning
mithering
chivying
nudging
tantalizing
US
dunning
insisting
reminding
driving round the bend
getting to
intruding upon
working on
bending someone's ear
driving up the wall
messing with
tantalising
UK
giving a hard time
getting on one's nerves
driving crazy
picking on
driving you up the wall
pestering
getting on your nerves
getting at
getting in your hair
keeping after
besetting
afflicting
harrowing
taxing
oppressing
vexing
racking
burdening
exasperating
cursing
blighting
torturing
excruciating
agonizing
US
agonising
UK
upsetting
causing suffering to
causing trouble to
anguishing
crucifying
martyring
smiting
discommoding
facing
confronting
inconveniencing
grieving
frustrating
buffeting
buffetting
perturbing
pressing
harming
testing
perplexing
suffering
fussing
laboring
US
labouring
UK
musing
sapping
stretching
draining
wearying
exhausting
squirming
tiring
flustering
rattling
unsettling
assailing
unhinging
depressing
wringing
saddening
tiring out
wearing out
dejecting
haunting
making demands on
putting a strain on
giving someone grief
making severe demands on
incommoding
dashing
overcharging
bumming out
getting down
sticking it to
giving it to
dishing it out
dishing out
weighing down
hurting
wounding
ailing
affecting
pursuing
gripping
striking
visiting
taking
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to criticize or express contempt for
throwing shade
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
knocking
panning
blasting
disparaging
slamming
lambasting
attacking
pillorying
roasting
besmirching
denigrating
deprecating
maligning
slating
vilifying
castigating
excoriating
faulting
hammering
slurring
chastising
flaming
savaging
skewering
trashing
bashing
crucifying
rubbishing
ripping
scathing
slagging
dissing
judging
nitpicking
finding fault with
cutting down
dressing down
nit-picking
slagging off
bad-mouthing
putting down
taking down
tearing into
casting aspersions on
coming down on
finding fault
fulminating against
lacing to
laying into
nitpicking about
pulling apart
pulling to pieces
inveighing against
picking holes in
pouring scorn on
railing against
running down
having a go at
giving a bad press to
tearing to shreds
scoffing at
getting at
doing down
finding lacking
passing judgment
nitpicking over
censuring
slogging
dispraising
giving some stick to
pummelling
UK
doing a number on
denouncing
slashing
reprehending
giving the business
inveighing
aspersing
arraigning
skinning alive
picking to pieces
throwing brickbats at
lashing
fustigating
pummeling
jumping on
decrying
hitting
bagging on
carping
reprimanding
cutting to bits
fluffing
skinning
reprobating
blistering
rapping
sledging
zapping
rating
slugging
animadverting on
cavilling at
passing strictures upon
trimming
reproving
bagging
hitting out at
condemning
objurgating
giving bad press
blaming
chiding
disapproving of
scorching
derogating
clobbering
nagging at
mauling
giving flak to
complaining about
carping at
vituperating against
cutting up
denunciating
abusing
reviling
belittling
depreciating
slandering
talking down
vilipending
crying down
flaying
shooting down
deriding
cavilling
UK
detracting from
jeering at
caviling
US
giving something a battering
harshing
berating
rebuking
reproaching
upbraiding
scolding
assailing
belaboring
US
barking at
riling
bawling out
accusing
tearing a strip off
slanging
chewing out
potshotting
tongue-lashing
contemning
sailing into
growling
tying into
yelling at
carpeting
railing
giving someone a dressing-down
beating up on
telling off
taking to task
lighting to
calumniating
insulting
reading the riot act
ripping into
smearing
haranguing
traducing
cursing
belabouring
UK
vituperating
minimizing
US
diminishing
kissing off
trash-talking
writing off
discounting
playing down
dumping on
taking a dig at
tearing down
tearing to pieces
dismissing
minimising
UK
cutting down to size
taking down a peg
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct
remonstrating
objecting
kicking
opposing
demurring
excepting
arguing
challenging
condemning
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
deploring
denouncing
animadverting
blaming
censuring
decrying
deprecating
disapproving
disparaging
disputing
dissenting
griping
inveighing
nagging
recriminating
taking exception
arguing against
opposing strongly
protesting against
taking issue
complaining vociferously about
raising objections to
expressing disagreement with
expressing disapproval of
lodging a protest against
speaking out against
taking a stand against
taking exception to
taking issue with
finding fault
frowning upon
making a fuss about
sounding off
kicking up a fuss about
kicking up a stink about
objecting strongly to
Verb
▲
Present participle for to toy or tinker with something, especially aimlessly
fiddling
trifling
toying
playing
messing
touching
feeling
handling
fooling
fingering
pawing
thumbing
dabbling
doodling
fussing
twiddling
bumbling
playing with
messing around
fooling around
messing with
fooling about
messing about
Verb
▲
Present participle for to complain or express discontent in a wearisome manner
carping
complaining
grumbling
moaning
whingeing
whining
grousing
griping
beefing
grouching
bellyaching
bleating
fussing
grizzling
muttering
nagging
wailing
growling
screaming
inveighing
keening
grumping
kvetching
murmuring
caterwauling
repining
whimpering
crabbing
squealing
hollering
squawking
croaking
yowling
maundering
yammering
kicking
yawping
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
objecting
yauping
nitpicking
chuntering
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
quibbling
mithering
creating
niggling
denouncing
reproaching
knocking
condemning
hypercriticizing
censuring
decrying
bothering
disparaging
finding fault
kicking up a fuss
nit-picking
sounding off
finding fault with
splitting hairs
going on
picking holes
Verb
▲
Present participle for to argue about petty and trivial matters
bickering
arguing
quarrelling
UK
quarreling
US
squabbling
wrangling
disputing
fighting
rowing
altercating
scrapping
quibbling
spatting
disagreeing
brawling
argufying
controverting
clashing
hassling
tiffing
jarring
brabbling
sparring
debating
caterwauling
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
digging
scraping
falling out
locking horns
crossing swords
having words
bandying words
having a row
chopping logic
having a disagreement
having a spat
having a tiff
fighting like cat and dog
going at it hammer and tongs
having a barney
nastily arguing
trading zingers
causing a scene
Verb
▲
Present participle for to eat food, especially enthusiastically or greedily
noshing
eating
devouring
gobbling
gulping
wolfing
consuming
scoffing
scarfing
swallowing
shifting
ingurgitating
inhaling
ingesting
snarfing
munching
chomping
champing
dining
hoovering
tasting
taking
breakfasting
lunching
bevvying
bibbing
nibbling
gulping down
wolfing down
scoffing down
tucking into
partake of
gobbling down
scarfing down
scarfing up
snarfing down
snarfing up
tucking in
getting stuck into
feeding on
eating up
feasting on
munching on
breakfasting on
dining on
having breakfast
having dinner
having lunch
having tea
lunching on
having supper
eating between meals
Find more words!
Another word for
Opposite of
Meaning of
Rhymes with
Sentences with
Find word forms
Translate from English
Translate to English
Words With Friends
Scrabble
Crossword / Codeword
Words starting with
Words ending with
Words containing exactly
Words containing letters
Pronounce
Find conjugations
Find names
From Afrikaans
From Albanian
From Amharic
From Arabic
From Armenian
From Azerbaijani
From Basque
From Belarusian
From Bengali
From Bosnian
From Bulgarian
From Catalan
From Cebuano
From Chichewa
From Chinese
From Corsican
From Croatian
From Czech
From Danish
From Dutch
From Esperanto
From Estonian
From Farsi
From Filipino
From Finnish
From French
From Frisian
From Galician
From Georgian
From German
From Greek
From Gujarati
From Haitian Creole
From Hausa
From Hebrew
From Hindi
From Hmong
From Hungarian
From Icelandic
From Igbo
From Indonesian
From Irish
From Italian
From Japanese
From Javanese
From Kannada
From Kazakh
From Khmer
From Korean
From Kurdish
From Kyrgyz
From Lao
From Latin
From Latvian
From Lithuanian
From Luxembourgish
From Macedonian
From Malagasy
From Malay
From Malayalam
From Maltese
From Maori
From Marathi
From Mongolian
From Burmese
From Nepali
From Norwegian
From Polish
From Portuguese
From Punjabi
From Romanian
From Russian
From Samoan
From Scots Gaelic
From Serbian
From Sesotho
From Shona
From Sinhala
From Slovak
From Slovenian
From Somali
From Spanish
From Sundanese
From Swahili
From Swedish
From Tajik
From Tamil
From Telugu
From Thai
From Turkish
From Ukrainian
From Urdu
From Uzbek
From Vietnamese
From Welsh
From Xhosa
From Yiddish
From Yoruba
From Zulu
To Afrikaans
To Albanian
To Amharic
To Arabic
To Armenian
To Azerbaijani
To Basque
To Belarusian
To Bengali
To Bosnian
To Bulgarian
To Catalan
To Cebuano
To Chichewa
To Chinese
To Corsican
To Croatian
To Czech
To Danish
To Dutch
To Esperanto
To Estonian
To Farsi
To Filipino
To Finnish
To French
To Frisian
To Galician
To Georgian
To German
To Greek
To Gujarati
To Haitian Creole
To Hausa
To Hebrew
To Hindi
To Hmong
To Hungarian
To Icelandic
To Igbo
To Indonesian
To Irish
To Italian
To Japanese
To Javanese
To Kannada
To Kazakh
To Khmer
To Korean
To Kurdish
To Kyrgyz
To Lao
To Latin
To Latvian
To Lithuanian
To Luxembourgish
To Macedonian
To Malagasy
To Malay
To Malayalam
To Maltese
To Maori
To Marathi
To Mongolian
To Burmese
To Nepali
To Norwegian
To Polish
To Portuguese
To Punjabi
To Romanian
To Russian
To Samoan
To Scots Gaelic
To Serbian
To Sesotho
To Shona
To Sinhala
To Slovak
To Slovenian
To Somali
To Spanish
To Sundanese
To Swahili
To Swedish
To Tajik
To Tamil
To Telugu
To Thai
To Turkish
To Ukrainian
To Urdu
To Uzbek
To Vietnamese
To Welsh
To Xhosa
To Yiddish
To Yoruba
To Zulu
English
French
Afrikaans Word
Albanian Word
Arabic Word
Bengali Word
Chinese Word
Croatian Word
Czech Word
Danish Word
Dutch Word
English Word
Finnish Word
French Word
German Word
Greek Word
Hindi Word
Hungarian Word
Icelandic Word
Indonesian Word
Italian Word
Japanese Word
Korean Word
Latin Word
Malay Word
Malayalam Word
Marathi Word
Nepali Word
Norwegian Word
Polish Word
Portuguese Word
Romanian Word
Russian Word
Serbian Word
Slovak Word
Spanish Word
Swahili Word
Swedish Word
Tamil Word
Telugu Word
Thai Word
Turkish Word
Ukrainian Word
Uzbek Word
Vietnamese Word
Welsh Word
All words
2-letter words
3-letter words
4-letter words
5-letter words
6-letter words
7-letter words
8-letter words
9-letter words
10-letter words
11-letter words
12-letter words
13-letter words
14-letter words
Plural of
Singular of
Past tense of
Present tense of
Verb for
Adjective for
Adverb for
Noun for
Meaning of name
Origin of name
Names meaning
Names starting with
Names of origin
picking at
Use * for blank tiles (max 2)
Advanced Search
Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces
Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder
See Also
What is another word for pick at
?
Use our
Synonym Finder
Nearby Words
picking holes
picking holes in
picking nits
picking off
picking on
picking one's brain
picking apart
picking and choosing
picking and choose
picking an argument with
picking an argument
picking again
Find Synonyms
picking at
go
Word Tools
Finders & Helpers
Apps
More
Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024
