| Main Entry: |
pain in the neck
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficult person or situation |
| Synonyms: | headache, nudnik, nuisance, pain in the butt, pain in the rear, pest, schmo |
| Main Entry: | botheration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | annoyance |
| Synonyms: | aggravation, bothering, bugging, disturbance, exasperation, harassment, hassle, headache, inconvenience, irritation, nuisance, pestering, problem, vexation |
| Main Entry: | hornets' nest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | problem |
| 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*, tr |
| Main Entry: | aggravation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
aberrant, abrupt, acute, aggravable, aggravated, aggravating, agitated, all of a twitter, baffled, bewildered, bizarre, bluff, blustering, boisterous, brainsick, broken, brooding, brusque, catatonic, comatose, confounded, confused, convulsive, delirious, desperate, desultory, detonating, deviant, diabolical, disedifying, disorderly, distracted, distraught, disturbed, dizzy, ebullient, erratic, excited, explosive, extravagant, fanatic, fazed, feral, ferocious, fierce, fierce as a tiger, fiery, flaming, flustered, frantic, frazzled, frenzied, furious, giddy-paced, headstrong, hot, hysteric, imbalanced, impetuous, importunate, in hysterics, incontrollable, infuriate, insuppressible, irrepressible, jangled, kamikaze, lobotomized, maladjusted, manic, mental, meteoric, mixed-up, muddled, neurotic, obsessive, obstreperous, off-the-wall, outrageous, overwrought, peculiar, perverse, phobic, pixilated, procellous, queer, raging, ramagious, rampant, rattled, ravening, red-hot, restless, retarded, riotous, rocky, roiled, rough, rude, saltatory, saturnalian, savage, scorching, shaken-up, shaking, shambling, sharp, shattered, spasmodic, spooked, stormy, stressed-out, strung-out, subsultory, tameless, tangled, tremulous, troublous, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, unappeasable, unbridled, uncontrollable, unextinguished, ungentle, ungovernable, unmitigable, unmitigated, unquelled, unquenched, unquiet, unrelieved, unrepressed, unruly, unsound, unstable, uproarious, vehement, violent, volcanic, warm, waspish, wild, worked-up, worse, zoned
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| Concept: | Aggravation. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
aggravation, heightening; exacerbation; exasperation; overestimation; exaggeration.
-verbs
aggravate, render worse, heighten, embitter, sour; exacerbate; exasperate, envenom; enrage, provoke, tease., add fuel to the fire, add fuel to the flame; fan the flame (excite); go from bad to worse (deteriorate).
-adjectives
aggravated; worse, unrelieved; aggravable; aggravating v.
-adverbs
out of the frying pan into the fire, from bad to worse, worse and worse.
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| Antonyms: | relief |
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