bothering

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bothering

adjective more bothering · most bothering

That bothers; annoying, irritating. ‘I never told you, I had a bothering experience with him. Nothing came of it fortunately.’

noun botherings

The act or habit of troubling or disturbing someone.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of bother

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: botheration, annoy, vex, annoyance, nuisance, hassle, irritate, trouble, fuss, pain, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, rile, disoblige, rag

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@misc{bothering_2026,
  title = {bothering},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bothering},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}