One entry found for nuisance.

Entry Word: nuisance
Function: noun
Text: 1 one who is obnoxiously annoying <my little brother was being a nuisance by poking and prodding me throughout the long car trip>
Synonyms annoyance, annoyer, bother, gadfly, gnawer, persecutor, pest, tease, teaser
Related Words headache; harrier, heckler; hassle, plague; molester, tormentor, torturer
Near Antonyms charmer, smoothy (or smoothie)
2 something that is a source of irritation <folding up this map correctly is such a nuisance> -- see ANNOYANCE 3