Exact Match:
Synonyms:
- acute,
- afflictive,
- aggravating,
- agonizing,
- annoying,
- atrocious,
- biting,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- chafing,
- consuming,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- desolating,
- disquieting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- exasperating,
- excruciating,
- fretting,
- galling,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- griping,
- harassing,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heartsickening,
- heartwounding,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- piercing,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- poignant,
- provoking,
- pungent,
- racking,
- rending,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- tearing,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- torturing,
- torturous,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- upsetting,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying
Related Words:
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- calamitous,
- consuming,
- desolating,
- dire,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- excruciating,
- grievous,
- harrowing,
- heartbreaking,
- heartsickening,
- heartwounding,
- lamentable,
- moving,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- racking,
- regrettable,
- rending,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- touching,
- unfortunate
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- disturbing,
- exasperating,
- galling,
- harassing,
- harassment,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provocation,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- vexation,
- vexatious,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- aggravating
collapse - making worse related words >
- aggravative,
- annoying,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- contentious,
- disturbing,
- exasperating,
- exasperative,
- galling,
- harassing,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- exasperating
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- extremely annoying or displeasing; "his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating"; "I've had an exasperating day"; "her infuriating indifference"; "the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening" related words >
- aggravating,
- aggravative,
- annoying,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- contentious,
- disturbing,
- exasperative,
- galling,
- harassing,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- chafing,
- disquieting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- exasperating,
- fretting,
- galling,
- harassing,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- upsetting,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- worrying
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- chafing,
- disquieting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- exasperating,
- fretting,
- galling,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- upsetting,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- obsessive
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- a person who has obsessions related words >
- absorbing,
- all-encompassing,
- arresting,
- attractive,
- compelling,
- compulsive,
- consuming,
- controlling,
- dominating,
- driving,
- enchanting,
- engaging,
- engrossing,
- enthralling,
- fascinating,
- gripping,
- harassing,
- haunting,
- holding,
- hypnotic,
- impelling,
- indelible,
- magnetic,
- mesmeric,
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- nagging,
- obsessing,
- obsessional,
- passionate,
- persistent,
- possessing,
- preoccupying,
- recurrent,
- spellbinding,
- tormenting,
- unforgettable,
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- unshakeable
- McCarthyism,
- amassing evidence,
- close inquiry,
- department of investigation,
- detection,
- detective work,
- exhaustive study,
- harassment,
- harrying,
- hearing,
- hounding,
- indagation,
- investigation,
- investigative bureau,
- legislative investigation,
- legwork,
- oppression,
- perscrutation,
- persecution,
- probe,
- red-baiting,
- research,
- sifting,
- sleuthing,
- tormenting,
- victimization,
- witch-hunting
- acute,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- atrocious,
- biting,
- consuming,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- desolating,
- distressing,
- excruciating,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- griping,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heartsickening,
- heartwounding,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- pungent,
- racking,
- rending,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- tearing,
- tormenting,
- torturing
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- awful,
- awfully,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- damned,
- disturbing,
- dreadful,
- dreadfully,
- exasperating,
- extremely,
- galling,
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- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
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- irritating,
- mean,
- monstrous,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- terribly,
- tiresome,
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- troublesome,
- troubling,
- troublous,
- ugly,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wicked,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- worrying
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- the act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes; "vigorous worrying finally loosened the saw" related words >
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- chafing,
- disquieting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- exasperating,
- fretting,
- galling,
- harassing,
- harassment,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- torment,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- upsetting,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- worriedness,
- worries and cares,
- worriment,
- worrisome,
- worry
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- backbreaking,
- besetting,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- crushing,
- disturbing,
- exasperating,
- galling,
- grueling,
- harassing,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
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- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provoking,
- teasing,
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- tormenting,
- troublesome,
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- trying,
- ugly,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wicked,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- racking
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- causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain" related words >
- acute,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- atrocious,
- barbarous,
- biting,
- consuming,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- desolating,
- distressing,
- excruciating,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- griping,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heartsickening,
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- hurtful,
- hurting,
- inhuman,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- pungent,
- rending,
- savage,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- tearing,
- tormenting,
- torturing,
- torturous
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- backbreaking,
- besetting,
- bothering,
- burdensome,
- chafing,
- crushing,
- disquieting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- exasperating,
- fretting,
- galling,
- grueling,
- harassing,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- onerous,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- trying,
- upsetting,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- agonizing,
- baneful,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- consuming,
- consumptive,
- deadly,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- devastating,
- disastrous,
- doomful,
- excruciating,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fratricidal,
- harrowing,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heartsickening,
- heartwounding,
- internecine,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- racking,
- ravaging,
- rending,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- self-destructive,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- withering
- abuse of terms,
- agonizing,
- catachresis,
- contorting,
- corruption,
- distortion,
- eisegesis,
- error,
- false coloring,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- harrowing,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- miscitation,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misrepresentation,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- perversion,
- racking,
- slanting,
- squeezing,
- straining,
- tearing,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- twisting,
- wrenching
- agonizing
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- extremely painful related words >
- acute,
- afflictive,
- atrocious,
- biting,
- consuming,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- desolating,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- excruciating,
- exquisite,
- fierce,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- griping,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heartsickening,
- heartwounding,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- intense,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- pungent,
- racking,
- rending,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- tearing,
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- torturing,
- torturous,
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- violent
- acute,
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- agonizing,
- atrocious,
- biting,
- consuming,
- cramping,
- cruel,
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- distressful,
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- exquisite,
- extreme,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- griping,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heartsickening,
- heartwounding,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- insufferable,
- intense,
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- paroxysmal,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- pungent,
- racking,
- rending,
- severe,
- sharp,
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- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- tearing,
- tormenting,
- torturing,
- torturous,
- unbearable,
- unendurable,
- vivid
- ablative,
- abradant,
- abrasive,
- afflictive,
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- attritive,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- chafing,
- distasteful,
- disturbing,
- erosive,
- exasperating,
- fretting,
- gnawing,
- grating,
- grievous,
- grinding,
- harassing,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritant,
- irritating,
- irritative,
- painful,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provoking,
- rasping,
- scratchy,
- stinging,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- unpalatable,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- annoying
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- causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" related words >
- aggravating,
- aggravative,
- backbreaking,
- besetting,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- chafing,
- contentious,
- crushing,
- disquieting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- exasperating,
- exasperative,
- fretting,
- galling,
- grueling,
- harassing,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- onerous,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- trying,
- upsetting,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- blandishment,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- chafing,
- coaxing,
- demanding,
- disquieting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dunning,
- exasperating,
- fretting,
- galling,
- harassing,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importune,
- importunity,
- insistent,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- nagging,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plying,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- upsetting,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wheedling,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- acute,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- alarming,
- atrocious,
- biting,
- chilling,
- consuming,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- daunting,
- desolating,
- disconcerting,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- excruciating,
- frightening,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- griping,
- hard,
- harsh,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heartsickening,
- heartwounding,
- horrible,
- horrifying,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- nerve-racking,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- pungent,
- racking,
- rending,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- tearing,
- terrifying,
- tormenting,
- torturing,
- torturous,
- traumatic,
- upsetting,
- vexing,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- backbreaking,
- besetting,
- boresome,
- boring,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- chafing,
- crushing,
- disturbing,
- drudging,
- dull,
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- exhausting,
- fagging,
- fatiguing,
- galling,
- grueling,
- harassing,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irritating,
- nettling,
- onerous,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provoking,
- stupefyingly boring,
- stupid,
- stuporific,
- teasing,
- tedious,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- trying,
- uninteresting,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- yawny
- consuming
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- very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy" related words >
- absorbing,
- agonizing,
- arresting,
- attractive,
- baneful,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- consumptive,
- deadly,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- devastating,
- disastrous,
- doomful,
- enchanting,
- engaging,
- engrossing,
- enthralling,
- excruciating,
- fascinating,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fratricidal,
- gripping,
- harrowing,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heartsickening,
- heartwounding,
- holding,
- hypnotic,
- internecine,
- magnetic,
- mesmeric,
- mesmerizing,
- monopolize,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- obsessing,
- obsessive,
- racking,
- ravaging,
- rending,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- self-destructive,
- spellbinding,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- withering
- victimization
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- adversity resulting from being made a victim; "his victimization infuriated him" related words >
- McCarthyism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- harassment,
- harrying,
- hoodwinking,
- hounding,
- illusion,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- oppression,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- persecution,
- phantasm,
- putting on,
- red-baiting,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- tormenting,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- witch-hunt,
- witch-hunting
- harassment
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- the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism
- a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" related words >
- McCarthyism,
- aggravation,
- annoyance,
- annoyingness,
- bad news,
- bedevilment,
- bore,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bothering,
- bothersomeness,
- crashing bore,
- devilment,
- difficulty,
- disturbance,
- dogging,
- downer,
- drag,
- exasperation,
- fretting,
- harrying,
- headache,
- hounding,
- irking,
- irksomeness,
- irritation,
- molestation,
- nuisance,
- oppression,
- persecution,
- perturbation,
- peskiness,
- pest,
- pestiferousness,
- plaguesomeness,
- problem,
- provocation,
- provoking,
- provokingness,
- red-baiting,
- tiresomeness,
- torment,
- tormenting,
- trial,
- trouble,
- troublesomeness,
- vexation,
- vexatiousness,
- vexing,
- victimization,
- wearisomeness,
- witch-hunt,
- witch-hunting,
- worriedness,
- worries and cares,
- worriment,
- worrisomeness,
- worry,
- worrying
- irritating
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- causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"
- (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite; "an irritative agent" related words >
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acrid,
- aggravating,
- aggravative,
- annoying,
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- troublesome,
- troubling,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- vitriolic,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- persecution
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- the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion) related words >
- McCarthyism,
- abuse,
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- annoyance,
- bad news,
- bedevilment,
- bore,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bothersomeness,
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- irritation,
- laceration,
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- maltreatment,
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- outrage,
- passion,
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- rack,
- red-baiting,
- subjugation,
- suppression,
- torment,
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- torture,
- trial,
- trouble,
- tyranny,
- vexation,
- vexatiousness,
- victimization,
- witch-hunt,
- witch-hunting,
- worriment,
- worry
- hurtful
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- causing hurt; "her hurtful unconsidered words" related words >
- acute,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- atrocious,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- biting,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
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- gnawing,
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- painful,
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- piercing,
- poignant,
- poisonous,
- prejudicial,
- pungent,
- racking,
- scatheful,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spiteful,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- toxic,
- unkind,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- virulent,
- wounding
- stabbing
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- causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty" related words >
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- acute,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
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- bayonetting,
- biting,
- bitter,
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- caustic,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- cutting,
- distressing,
- double-edged,
- edged,
- escharotic,
- excruciating,
- fierce,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- griping,
- hard,
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- impalement,
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- knifing,
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- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- penetrating,
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- violent,
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- vitriolic,
- withering
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- annoying,
- bothering,
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- cajoling,
- choiceless,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- coaxing,
- compulsory,
- controlled,
- crying,
- demanding,
- disturbing,
- draining,
- dunning,
- exacting,
- exasperating,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- firm-minded,
- forward,
- galling,
- grasping,
- harassing,
- imperative,
- importune,
- independent,
- insistent,
- instant,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- loud,
- mandatory,
- nagging,
- necessary,
- necessitous,
- obligatory,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- pressing,
- provoking,
- pushy,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-controlled,
- self-expressive,
- self-possessed,
- self-restrained,
- strong-minded,
- strong-willed,
- taxing,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- urgent,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wheedling,
- without choice,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- agitating,
- annoying,
- baffling,
- bewildering,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- breathtaking,
- chafing,
- charged,
- cliff-hanging,
- confounding,
- confusing,
- discomposing,
- disconcerting,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- distracting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- electric,
- embarrassing,
- enigmatic,
- exciting,
- exhilarating,
- fretting,
- galvanic,
- harassing,
- heady,
- heart-expanding,
- heart-stirring,
- heart-swelling,
- heart-thrilling,
- impressive,
- inflammatory,
- intoxicating,
- intricate,
- jarring,
- jolting,
- maddening,
- mind-blowing,
- moving,
- mysterious,
- mystifying,
- overcoming,
- overmastering,
- overpowering,
- overwhelming,
- perplexing,
- perturbing,
- piquant,
- plaguing,
- problematic,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- puzzling,
- ravishing,
- soul-stirring,
- spirit-stirring,
- stimulating,
- stimulative,
- stirring,
- striking,
- suspenseful,
- suspensive,
- tantalizing,
- telling,
- thrilling,
- thrilly,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- unsettling,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- Jim Crow,
- Jim Crow law,
- McCarthyism,
- anti-Semitism,
- apartheid,
- black power,
- black supremacy,
- chauvinism,
- class consciousness,
- class distinction,
- class hatred,
- class prejudice,
- class war,
- color bar,
- color line,
- discrimination,
- fascism,
- harassment,
- harrying,
- hounding,
- know-nothingism,
- male chauvinist,
- minority prejudice,
- oppression,
- persecution,
- race hatred,
- race prejudice,
- race snobbery,
- racial discrimination,
- racialism,
- racism,
- segregation,
- sex discrimination,
- sexism,
- social barrier,
- social discrimination,
- superpatriotism,
- tormenting,
- ultranationalism,
- victimization,
- white power,
- white supremacy,
- witch-hunt,
- witch-hunting,
- xenophobia
- aggravating,
- agitating,
- annoying,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- breathtaking,
- charged,
- cliff-hanging,
- disquieting,
- distracting,
- disturbing,
- electric,
- exasperating,
- exciting,
- exhilarating,
- galling,
- galvanic,
- harassing,
- heady,
- heart-expanding,
- heart-stirring,
- heart-swelling,
- heart-thrilling,
- importunate,
- importune,
- impressive,
- inflammatory,
- intoxicating,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- jarring,
- jolting,
- maddening,
- mind-blowing,
- moving,
- overcoming,
- overmastering,
- overpowering,
- overwhelming,
- perturbing,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- piquant,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- ravishing,
- soul-stirring,
- spirit-stirring,
- stimulating,
- stimulative,
- stirring,
- striking,
- suspenseful,
- suspensive,
- tantalizing,
- teasing,
- telling,
- thrilling,
- thrilly,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- unsettling,
- upsetting,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- disquieting
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- causing mental discomfort; "the disquieting sounds of nearby gunfire" related words >
- agitating,
- alarming,
- annoying,
- awing,
- bothersome,
- breathtaking,
- chafing,
- charged,
- chilling,
- cliff-hanging,
- daunting,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- distracting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- electric,
- exciting,
- exhilarating,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- fretting,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- galvanic,
- harassing,
- heady,
- heart-expanding,
- heart-stirring,
- heart-swelling,
- heart-thrilling,
- impressive,
- inflammatory,
- intoxicating,
- jarring,
- jolting,
- maddening,
- mind-blowing,
- moving,
- overawing,
- overcoming,
- overmastering,
- overpowering,
- overwhelming,
- perturbing,
- piquant,
- plaguing,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- ravishing,
- scaring,
- scary,
- soul-stirring,
- spirit-stirring,
- startling,
- stimulating,
- stimulative,
- stirring,
- striking,
- suspenseful,
- suspensive,
- tantalizing,
- telling,
- thrilling,
- thrilly,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- unsettling,
- upsetting,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- bad,
- bad for,
- baneful,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- catching,
- communicable,
- contagious,
- contaminated,
- deadly,
- destructive,
- disturbing,
- endemic,
- envenomed,
- epidemial,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- exasperating,
- foul,
- galling,
- harassing,
- harmful,
- importunate,
- importune,
- infectious,
- infective,
- injurious,
- inoculable,
- insalubrious,
- insanitary,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmatic,
- miasmic,
- morbific,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- pandemic,
- pathogenic,
- peccant,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- poisonous,
- polluted,
- provoking,
- septic,
- sporadic,
- spreading,
- tainted,
- taking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- toxic,
- toxicant,
- toxiferous,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- unhealthful,
- unhealthy,
- unhygienic,
- unsanitary,
- unwholesome,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- virulent,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- zymotic
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- bland,
- boresome,
- boring,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- common,
- commonplace,
- difficult,
- disagreeable,
- disturbing,
- draining,
- drudging,
- dull,
- exasperating,
- exhausting,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- flat,
- galling,
- grueling,
- harassing,
- hard,
- humdrum,
- hypnotic,
- importunate,
- importune,
- insipid,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- jading,
- killing,
- matter-of-fact,
- monotonous,
- mundane,
- onerous,
- oppressive,
- ordinary,
- pedestrian,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- plain,
- poetryless,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- provoking,
- punishing,
- soporific,
- straining,
- stressful,
- stupefyingly boring,
- stuporific,
- teasing,
- tedious,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- trying,
- unembellished,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninteresting,
- unpleasant,
- unpoetic,
- unromantic,
- vapid,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- yawny
- Herculean,
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- arduous,
- backbreaking,
- black,
- bleak,
- boresome,
- boring,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- crushing,
- dark,
- dismal,
- disturbing,
- draining,
- drear,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- effortful,
- exasperating,
- exhausting,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- forced,
- funebrial,
- funereal,
- galling,
- gloomy,
- grave,
- gray,
- grim,
- grueling,
- harassing,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- importunate,
- importune,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- provoking,
- punishing,
- saturnine,
- solemn,
- somber,
- sombrous,
- strained,
- straining,
- strenuous,
- stressful,
- stupefyingly boring,
- stuporific,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- tormenting,
- tough,
- triste,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- trying,
- uphill,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- weary,
- wearying,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- yawny
- importune
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- beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them" related words >
- advocate,
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- appeal,
- apply pressure,
- approach,
- beg,
- beseech,
- beset,
- besiege,
- blandish,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- bug,
- buttonhole,
- cajole,
- call on,
- call upon,
- coax,
- crave,
- disturbing,
- dun,
- entreat,
- exasperating,
- exert pressure,
- exhort,
- galling,
- harassing,
- high-pressure,
- implore,
- importunate,
- insist,
- insist upon,
- invoke,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- jawbone,
- lobby,
- make a pass,
- make advances,
- make an overture,
- nag,
- nag at,
- overture,
- pesky,
- pester,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plague,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- plead,
- plead with,
- ply,
- pray,
- press,
- pressure,
- proposition,
- provoking,
- push,
- recommend,
- soft-soap,
- solicit,
- supplicate,
- sweet-talk,
- tease,
- teasing,
- throw a pass,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- urge,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wheedle,
- work on,
- worrisome,
- worrying
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