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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | annoyance; annoying person |
| Synonyms: | besetment, blister, bore, bother, botheration, botherment, bum*, creep, drag*, drip*, exasperation, frump, gadfly, headache, inconvenience, infliction, insect*, irritant, irritation, louse, nag*, nudge*, offense, pain, pain in the neck, pest, pester, pesterer, pill, plague, poor excuse, problem, terror, trouble, vexation |
| Antonyms: | delight, happiness, pleasantry, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oppressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overwhelming, repressive |
| Synonyms: | backbreaking, bleak, brutal, burdensome, confining, cruel, demanding, depressing, depressive, despotic, dictatorial, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, exacting, exigent, gloomy, grievous, grinding, harsh, headache, heavy, heavy-handed, hefty, inhuman, ironhanded, mean, onerous, overbearing, rough going, severe, somber, superincumbent, taxing, tough, troublesome, tyrannical, unjust, weighty |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, relieving |
| Main Entry: | pest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or thing that presents problem |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, badgerer, bane, besetment, blight, blister, bore, bother, botheration, bug*, contagion, crashing bore, creep, curse, drag, drip, epidemic, exasperation, headache, infection, irritant, irritation, nag, nudge, nuisance, pain in the neck, pain*, pesterer, pestilence, pill, plague*, scourge*, tease*, thorn in side, tormentor, trial*, trouble, vexation, virus* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | problem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty; bad situation |
| Synonyms: | botheration, box*, can of worms, complication, count*, crunch, dilemma, disagreement, dispute, disputed point, doubt, headache, hitch*, hot water, issue, mess*, obstacle, pickle, point at issue, predicament, quandary, question, scrape*, squeeze*, trouble, worriment |
| Antonyms: | good situation, solution |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | task |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | job or chore, often assigned |
| Synonyms: | assignment, bother, burden, business, calling, charge, daily grind, deadweight, duty, effort, employment, enterprise, errand, exercise, fun and games, function, gig, grind*, grindstone, headache, labor, load, long row to hoe, millstone, mission, nuisance, occupation, office, onus, pain, project, province, responsibility, stint, strain, tax, toil, trouble, undertaking, vocation, work |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tribulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, unhappiness |
| Synonyms: | adversity, affliction, albatross, bad luck, blow*, bummer, burden, care, cross to bear, crucible, curse, difficulty, distress, double whammy, downer, drag*, grief, hard knock, hard time, headache, heartache*, misery, misfortune, oppression, ordeal, persecution, rainy day, reverse, sorrow, suffering, trial, trouble, vexation, visitation, woe, worry, wretchedness, wronging |
| Antonyms: | calm, comfort, happiness, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | woe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suffering |
| Synonyms: | adversity, affliction, agony, anguish, bemoaning, blues, burden, calamity, care, cataclysm, catastrophe, curse, dejection, deploring, depression, disaster, distress, dole, drag, gloom, grief, grieving, hardship, headache, heartache*, heartbreak, lamentation, melancholy, misadventure, misery, misfortune, pain, rain*, regret, rue, sadness, sorrow, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | happiness, joy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | worry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety, trouble |
| Synonyms: | anguish, annoyance, apprehension, bad news, care, concern, disquiet, distress, disturbance, doubt, fear, headache, heartache*, irritation, misery, misgiving, nag*, pain*, perplexity, pest, plague, presentiment, problem, torment, torture, trial, uncertainty, uneasiness, vexation, woe, worriment |
| Antonyms: | calmness, reassurance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | annoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | source of irritation |
| Synonyms: | aggravation, difficulty, discomfort, headache, inconvenience, irritant, nuisance, trouble |
| Antonyms: | comfort |
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