Word Meanings - BOTHERSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

Related words: (words related to BOTHERSOME)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• BOTHER
  To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother. Note: The imperative is sometimes used as an exclamation mildly imprecatory. (more info) Etym:
• TROUBLESOME
  Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing;
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• BOTHERER
  One who bothers.
• BOTHERATION
  The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
• TROUBLE
  A fault or interruption in a stratum. To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. -- To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience. She never took the trouble to close them. Bryant. Syn.
• CAUSIDICAL
  Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• CAUSATION
  The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• ENCAUSTIC
  Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• EREMACAUSIS
  A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.
• CATACAUSTIC
  Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.
• GALVANOCAUSTIC
  Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.