Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressing |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, annoying, disquieting, disturbing, exasperating, irksome, irritating, maddening, stressful, taxing, tense, trying, upsetting |
| Main Entry: | troublesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bothersome, worrisome |
| Synonyms: | alarming, annoying, arduous, burdensome, damaging, dangerous, demanding, difficult, disquieting, harassing, hard, heavy, importunate, inconvenient, infestive, intractable, irksome, irritating, laborious, mean, messy, murder, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilential, problematic, refractory, repressive, rough, taxing, tiresome, tough, tricky, troublous, trying, ugly, ungovernable, unruly, uphill, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wicked, worrying |
| Antonyms: | easy, helpful, nice, useful |
| Main Entry: | trying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, bothersome |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, annoying, arduous, demanding, exacting, exasperating, exigent, fatiguing, hard, irksome, irritating, onerous, oppressive, pestilent, provocative, rough, severe, sticky, strenuous, stressful, taxing, tight, tiresome, tough, tricky, troublesome, upsetting, vexing, wearisome, weighty |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, mild, moderate, unstressful |
| Main Entry: | uncomfortable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful, rough |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, agonizing, annoying, awkward, bitter, cramped, difficult, disagreeable, distressing, dolorous, excruciating, galling, grievous, hard, harsh, ill-fitting, incommodious, irritating, thorny, torturing, troublesome, vexatious, wearisome |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, easy, painless |
| Main Entry: | untoward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome |
| Synonyms: | adverse, annoying, awkward, contrary, disastrous, disturbing, fractious, hapless, ill-starred, inauspicious, inconvenient, indocile, inimical, inopportune, intractable, irritating, luckless, misfortunate, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, star-crossed, undisciplined, unfavorable, unfortunate, ungovernable, unhappy, unlucky, unmanageable, unpliable, unpropitious, unruly, untimely, unyielding, vexatious, wild |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | vexatious |
| 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: | worrisome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, alarming, annoying, anxious, apprehensive, bothersome, burdensome, disquieting, disturbing, inconvenient, irksome, irritating, nervous, taxing, tiresome, trying, uneasy, unnerving, upsetting, vexing, wearisome, worrying |
| Main Entry: | annoying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing irritation |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, bothersome, disturbing, irritating, troublesome, vexatious |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, pleasant, pleasing, soothing, welcome |
| Main Entry: | darned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damned |
| Synonyms: | awful, confounded, irritating, offensive, undesirable |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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