| Main Entry: | harassment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badgering |
Synonyms: |
aggravation, annoyance, bedevilment, bother, bothering, disturbance, exasperation, hassle, irking, irritation, molestation, nuisance, persecution, perturbation, pestering, provocation, provoking, torment, trouble, vexation, vexing |
Antonyms: |
aid, assistance, facilitation, furtherance, help, support |
| Main Entry: | bashing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse against a group or individual based on identity or ideological beliefs |
Synonyms: |
assault, attack, beating, beating up, bias crime, censure, charge, condemnation, criticism, denigration, harassment, hate crime, hounding, jumping, offensive, persecution, strike, torment |
| Main Entry: | difficulty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental burden |
Synonyms: |
ado, aggravation, annoyance, anxiety, bafflement, bother, care, charge, complication, crisis, depression, discouragement, distress, embarrassment, emergency, exigency, frustration, grievance, hangup, harassment, imbroglio, inconvenience, irritation, jam, maze, mess, millstone, misery, oppression, perplexity, pickle, pinch, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, ramification, responsibility, scrape*, setback, strain, strait, stress, strife, struggle, to-do, trouble, vicissitude, weight, worry |
Antonyms: |
calmness, contentment, peace, pleasure, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | grief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental suffering |
Synonyms: |
affliction, agony, anguish, bemoaning, bereavement, bewailing, care, dejection, deploring, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache, heartbreak, infelicity, lamentation, lamenting, malaise, melancholy, misery, mortification, mournfulness, mourning, pain, purgatory, regret, remorse, repining, rue, sadness, sorrow, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
delight, ecstasy, exhilaration, happiness |
| Main Entry: | provocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incitement, stimulus |
Synonyms: |
affront, annoyance, bothering, brickbat, casus belli, cause, challenge, dare, defy, grabber, grievance, grounds, harassment, incentive, indignity, inducement, injury, instigation, insult, irking, justification, motivation, offense, provoking, reason, taunt, vexation, vexing |
Antonyms: |
prevention, repression, suppression |
| Main Entry: | torment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe mental distress |
Synonyms: |
affliction, agony, anguish, annoyance, bane, bother, excruciation, harassment, hell, irritation, misery, nag, nagging, nuisance, pain, pain in the neck, persecution, pest, plague, provocation, rack, scourge, suffering, torture, trouble, vexation, worry |
| Notes: | torment suggests persecution or the repeated inflicting of suffering or annoyance; torture adds the implication of causing unbearable pain or suffering |
Antonyms: |
contentment, glee, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | vexation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | annoyance |
Synonyms: |
aggravation, agitation, chagrin, discomfiture, harassment, hassle, irritation, mortification, pique, weariness |
| Main Entry: | besetment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | annoyance |
Synonyms: |
aggravation, bother, difficulty, harassment, irritant, irritation, nuisance, torment, trouble, vexation |
| Main Entry: | botheration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | annoyance |
Synonyms: |
aggravation, bothering, bugging, disturbance, exasperation, harassment, hassle, headache, inconvenience, irritation, nuisance, pestering, problem, vexation |
| Main Entry: | bothering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | annoyance |
Synonyms: |
botheration, bugging, disturbance, exasperation, harassment, irritation, pestering, vexation |