botheration
1. the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
• Syn:
irritation, annoyance, vexation
• Derivationally related forms:
bother, vex (for: vexation), irritate (for: irritation)
• Hypernyms:
psychological state, psychological condition, mental state, mental condition
• Hyponyms:
bummer, huff, miff, seeing red, pinprick,
restlessness, impatience, snit
2. something or someone that causes trouble;
a source of unhappiness
- washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer
- a bit of a bother
- he's not a friend, he's an infliction
• Syn:
annoyance, bother, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass
• Derivationally related forms:
pain (for: pain), bother, bother (for: bother)
• Hypernyms:
negative stimulus
• Hyponyms:
nuisance, irritant, thorn, plague
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