bother

bother is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
2. intransitive verb. To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
3. noun. One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.
4. noun. something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness

   "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"

   "a bit of a bother"

   Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, infliction, pain

5. noun. an angry disturbance

   "he didn't want to make a fuss"

   "they had labor trouble"

   Synonyms: fuss, hassle, trouble

6. verb. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

   "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"

   "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

   Synonyms: annoy, chafe, devil, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex

7. verb. make confused or perplexed or puzzled
8. verb. make nervous or agitated

   "The mere thought of her bothered him and made his heart beat faster"

9. verb. intrude or enter uninvited

   "Don't bother the professor while she is grading term papers"

10. verb. take the trouble to do something; concern oneself

    "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"

    "Don't bother, please"

    Synonyms: trouble

11. verb. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

    "Sorry to trouble you, but..."

    Synonyms: discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, trouble

Synonyms

annoyance, botheration, infliction, pain, fuss, hassle, trouble, annoy, chafe, devil, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bother:

brothe

Common word forms

bothers, bothered, botherer, bothering, botherment

Words from these letters

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