bother

Plural: bothers

Noun

• an angry disturbance
  • "a spot of bother"
• something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
  • "a bit of a bother"
• Fuss, ado.
• Trouble, inconvenience.

Verb

Verb Forms: bothered, bothering, bothers

• To annoy, disturb, or cause trouble for someone.
• take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
  • "Don't bother, please"
• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
  • "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"
• to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
• intrude or enter uninvited
  • "Don't bother the professor while she is grading term papers"
• make nervous or agitated
  • "The mere thought of her bothered him and made his heart beat faster"
• make confused or perplexed or puzzled
• To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
• To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
• Damn; curse.
• To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
• To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
• To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
• To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.

Intj

• A mild expression of annoyance.

Examples

• I never bother about such trivialities.
• I wouldn't bother with an umbrella if I were you.
• It didn’t BOTHER him to exchange his tiles, even if it meant losing a turn.
• There was a bit of bother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book.
• Why do I even bother to try?
• Would it bother you if I smoked?
• Yes, I can do that for you—it’s no bother.
• You didn’t even bother to close the door.

Synonyms

annoy, annoyance, botheration, chafe, devil, discommode, disoblige, fuss, get at, get to, gravel, hassle, incommode, inconvenience, inconvenience oneself, infliction, irritate, nark, nettle, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck, put out, rag, rile, trouble, trouble oneself, vex, Idioms:, ado, aggravate, agitate, antagonize, argy-bargy, bangarang, becare, bedevil, blast, bobbery, boil someone's piss, bother, botherate, bring down, brouhaha, bug, bunfight, burn up, bust-up, bustle, care, chaos, chap someone's hide, cheese off, clamour, clatter, commotion, concern oneself, dang, darn, discompose, disconcert, disgruntle, disruption, disturb, disturbance, drat, enturbulate, exasperate, faff, fiddlesticks, flap, foofaraw, fracas, frustrate, furor, get, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's Irish up, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get up, give someone the shits, go to the trouble, grate, grievance, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harsh one's mellow, hobbleshaw, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, irk, irritation, jazz, kerfuffle, mayhem, merry hell, mind, molest, mommick, mortify, nuisance, outcry, palaver, pandemonium, pee off, peeve, persecute, perturb, phooey, pique, piss off, plague, pother, provoke, put someone's back up, quarrel, raise someone's hackles, rankle, reck, rile up, riot, roil, rowdydow, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruckus, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, rumpus, shemozzle, shindy, splatterdash, sting, stir, stooshie, storm, take the trouble, tee off, test someone's patience, three-ring circus, throw off balance, tick off, to-do, tomfoolery, torque off, try one's patience, tumult, turmoil, unrest, unsettle, uproar, upset, upstir, vexation, wind up, worry

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