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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressing, bothersome |
| Synonyms: | afflicting, aggravating, annoying, burdensome, disagreeable, disappointing, disturbing, exasperating, irksome, irritating, mean, nagging, pesky, provoking, teasing, tormenting, troublesome, troublous, trying, ugly, unpleasant, upsetting, wicked, worrisome, worrying |
| Antonyms: | aiding, assisting, helpful, pleasing, soothing |
| Main Entry: | disturbing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disquieting |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, agitating, alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, harassing, hard, impeding, inconvenient, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, perturbing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, troubling, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, unsettling, upsetting, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying |
| Main Entry: | wearisome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tedious |
| Synonyms: | annoying, boring, dull, irksome, tiresome, uninteresting |
| Main Entry: | perturbing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disturbing |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, agitating, alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, disruptive, distressful, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, harassing, hard, impeding, inconvenient, intrusive, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, troubling, troublous, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, unsettling, upsetting, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying |
| Main Entry: | plaguy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vexatious |
| Synonyms: | afflicting, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, disagreeable, disappointing, disturbing, exasperating, galling, irksome, irritating, mean, nagging, nettlesome, pesky, provoking, teasing, tormenting, troublesome, troublous, trying, ugly*, unpleasant, upsetting, wicked, worrisome, worrying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | troublous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disturbing |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, agitating, alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, disruptive, distressful, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, harassing, hard, impeding, inconvenient, intrusive, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, perturbing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, troubling, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, unsettling, upsetting, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying |
| Main Entry: | unsettling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disturbing |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, agitating, alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, disruptive, distressful, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, harassing, hard, impeding, inconvenient, intrusive, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, perturbing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, troubling, troublous, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, upsetting, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying |
| Main Entry: | upsetting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disturbing |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, agitating, alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, disruptive, distressful, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, harassing, hard, impeding, inconvenient, intrusive, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, perturbing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, troubling, troublous, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, unsettling, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying |
| Main Entry: | weariful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring |
| Synonyms: | arid, bomb*, bromidic, bummer, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, drear, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, flat*, ho hum, humdrum*, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, nowhere, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid*, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, wearisome, weary, well-worn, zero* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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