Synonyms for Bothering

Synonyms for "bothering" (67 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (14)

aggravating baffling bewildering disconcerting dismaying

Noun(9 words)

alarming annoy annoyance annoying bothersome concern concerning disrupt distress

Strong matches (20)

Noun(10 words)

disturb disturbance disturbing hassle hassling hinder impede inconvenience irk irritate

embarrassing enigmatic exasperating galling harassing harassment importunate importune intricate irksome

Related words (33)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

11 entries

affect disturb disturbance emotionevaluative adjectiveinconvenience interfere interferencenegative descriptornuisance trouble

More specific

20 entries

alarming signalannoying factorconcerning developmentdisturbing findingharass hinderirritating elementmajor botherminor bothernagnuisance-causing featureobstructpersistent disturbancepesterpetty nuisancepreoccupy

Showing 16 of 20 words.

Collocations

18 entries

be a botherbothering factorbothering influencebothering issuebothering noisebothering othersbothering questionbothering variablebothering youbothersome factorbothersome issuebothersome memorycause botherfrequent botheringmajor botherminor bother

Showing 16 of 18 words.

Inflections

5 entries

bothered botherings bothersmore bothersomemost bothersome

Derivations

8 entries

bother bothered botherer botheringly bothers bothersome bothersomely bothersomeness

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

How naughty you are! Stop bothering me!

Source: tatoeba (24959)

If you persist in bothering her like that, she'll lose her temper.

Source: tatoeba (51102)

Stop bothering your father.

Source: tatoeba (64048)

Stop bothering me!

Source: tatoeba (262417)

Showing 4 of 11 available sentences.

Bothering