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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bother, trouble |
| Synonyms: | aggravation, annoyance, awkwardness, bothersomeness, cumbersomeness, difficulty, disadvantage, disruption, disturbance, drawback, exasperation, fuss, hindrance, nuisance, pain*, stew, trial, troublesomeness, uneasiness, unfitness, unhandiness, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unwieldiness, upset, vexation |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, convenience, profit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awkwardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty |
| Synonyms: | bulkiness, chanciness, cumbersomeness, danger, hazardousness, inconvenience, peril, perilousness, risk, troublesomeness, uncomfortableness, unhandiness, unmanageability, unwieldiness |
| Antonyms: | convenience, ease, easiness, straightforwardness |
| Main Entry: | awkwardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | embarrassment |
| Synonyms: | delicacy, difficulty, discomfort, inconvenience, inopportuneness, painfulness, stickiness, thorniness, ticklishness, trouble, uncomfortableness, unpleasantness, untimeliness |
| Antonyms: | cleverness |
| Main Entry: | bad news |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trouble |
| Synonyms: | bind, bother, concern, danger, deep trouble, difficulty, dilemma, dire straits, disappointment, distress, grief, headache, hindrance, hot water, inconvenience, mess, misfortune, nuisance, pain, predicament, problem, struggle, torment, woe |
| Main Entry: | bother |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | harass, annoy; give trouble |
| Synonyms: | afflict, aggravate, agitate, alarm, badger, bedevil, bore, browbeat, carp at, concern, cross, discommode, disconcert, disgust, dismay, displease, disquiet, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, exacerbate, exasperate, goad, grate on, grieve, harry, hinder, hurt, impede, inconvenience, insult, intrude upon, irk, irritate, molest, nag, needle, nudge, pain, perplex, perturb, pester, pick on, plague, provoke, pursue, put out, ride, scare, spite, tantalize, taunt, tease, torment, trouble, upset, vex, worry |
| Antonyms: | aid, help, please |
| Main Entry: | difficulty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental burden |
| Synonyms: | ado, aggravation, annoyance, anxiety, bafflement, bother, care, charge, complication, crisis, depression, discouragement, distress, embarrassment, emergency, exigency, frustration, grievance, hangup, harassment, imbroglio, inconvenience, irritation, jam, maze, mess, millstone, misery, oppression, perplexity, pickle, pinch, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, ramification, responsibility, scrape*, setback, strain, strait, stress, strife, struggle, to-do, trouble, vicissitude, weight, worry |
| Antonyms: | calmness, contentment, peace, pleasure, satisfaction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disadvantage(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty, trouble |
| Synonyms: | adverse circumstance, bar, blocking, burden, defect, deficiency, deprivation, detriment, disability, discommodity, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, fly in the ointment, hamper, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, imperfection, imposition, inadequacy, inconvenience, inutility, lack, liability, limitation, minus, nuisance, objection, obstacle, privation, problem, restraint, snag, stumbling block, weak point, weakness |
| Antonyms: | advantage, good fortune |
| Main Entry: | discommode |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | annoy |
| Synonyms: | bother, burden, disoblige, disquiet, disturb, fluster, harass, incommode, inconvenience, irk, molest, perturb, put out, trouble, upset, vex |
| Antonyms: | make happy, please |
| Main Entry: | disoblige |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | displease, annoy |
| Synonyms: | affront, bother, discommode, disturb, incommode, inconvenience, insult, offend, put about, put out, slight, trouble, upset, vex |
| Antonyms: | agree, oblige, please |
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