Thesaurus:nuisance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: something that annoys
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- annoyance [⇒ thesaurus]
- bother
- faff (British slang)
- grievance
- hassle
- inconvenience
- irritation
- nuisance
- palaver (British)
- peeve
- plague
- trouble
- vexation
Various
[edit]- bugbear
- grievance
- headache (figurative)
- inconvenience
- irritant
- mischief [⇒ thesaurus]
- nag
- pain [⇒ thesaurus]
- pain in the butt (idiomatic, Canada, US)
- pain in the neck (idiomatic, slang)
- pain in the rear (idiomatic, slang)
- pain in the ass (idiomatic, slang, vulgar)
- pain in the arse (idiomatic, Commonwealth, Ireland, vulgar)
- pain in the bum (idiomatic, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang)
- pest
- problem child (idiomatic)
See also
[edit]- Thesaurus:annoy
- Thesaurus:annoyed
- Thesaurus:annoying
- Thesaurus:annoyance (the state of annoyance)
Further reading
[edit]- “830. painfulness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “nuisance” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.