Chicken pox is an itchy nuisance for kids.
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Nuisance
//ˈnjuː.səns//
Synonyms for "nuisance" (90 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (45)
Related word relations
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More general
8 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
derived
12 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
113 translations across 28 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- إِزْعَاج noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Bulgarian
3 entries- досада noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- досадник noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- неприятност noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Catalan
4 entries- incomoditat noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- lata noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- molèstia noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- pesat noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 討厭的事 /讨厌的事 noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- 討厭的事 /讨厌的事 noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- 討厭的人 /讨厌的人 noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- 討厭的人 /讨厌的人 noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
Dutch
4 entries- ergernis noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- lastpost noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- ongemak noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- overlast noun (law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it)
Esperanto
2 entries- agacaĵo noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- malagrablaĵo noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
Finnish
4 entries- harmi noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- kiusa noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- kiusankappale noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- maanvaiva noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
French
2 entries- embêtement noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- nuisance noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Galician
4 entries- arniveque noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- arrancallo noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- canfornio noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- encambullada noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
German
4 entries- Belästigung noun (law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it)
- Quälgeist noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- Ärger noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- Ärgernis noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Greek
3 entries- βάσανο noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- ενόχληση noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- μπελάς noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Hungarian
4 entries- bosszúság noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- botránkozás noun (law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it)
- botrány noun (law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it)
- botrányokozás noun (law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it)
Indonesian
2 entries- gangguan noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- orang rewel noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
Irish
3 entries- crá croí noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- crá croí noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- núis noun (law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it)
Japanese
4 entries- 厄介者 noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- 迷惑 noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- 迷惑な人 noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- 迷惑な人 noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- ingisu noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Korean
3 entries- 방해 noun (law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it)
- 불쾌함 noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- 성가심 noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Middle English
1 entries- noysaunce noun (law: anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it)
Māori
3 entries- pōrearea noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- pōrearea noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- whakahōhā noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Norman
1 entries- emmèrde noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Onjenieech noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- Ploag noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Polish
4 entries- niedogodność noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- uciążliwość noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- utrapienie noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- utrapieniec noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
Portuguese
4 entries- distúrbio noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- inadequado noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- inconveniente noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- inconveniente noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
Russian
4 entries- доса́да noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- доса́да noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- неприя́тность noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- неудо́бство noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Spanish
4 entries- engarnio noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- engorro noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- estorbo noun (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- giba noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Swahili
1 entries- kero noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Turkish
1 entries- sıkıntı noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Ukrainian
3 entries- зніяковілість noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- незручність noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
- ніяковість noun (minor annoyance or inconvenience)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The noise was so loud that it was a nuisance to the neighbors.
Source: tatoeba (49436)
What a nuisance that child is!
Source: tatoeba (68335)
It's too much of a nuisance.
Source: tatoeba (265909)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.