Word Meanings - MOLESTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOLESTATION)

• Trouble
• Affliction
• disturbance
• annoyance
• perplexity
• molestation
• vexation
• inconvenience
• calamity
• distress
• uneasiness
• tribulation
• disaster
• torment
• misfortune
• adversity
• anxiety
• embarrassment
• sorrow
• misery
• grief
• depression
• difficulty
• labor
• toil
• effort

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MOLESTATION)

• Soothe
• compose
• please
• gratify
• gladden
• console
• elate
• comfort
• Suit
• aid
• benefit
• subserve
• assist
• help
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• soothe
• delight
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to MOLESTATION)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• 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.
• LABORIOUS
  1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• LABORED
  Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• LABOR
  The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. 7. Etym: (more info) 1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard,
• LABOROUS
  Laborious. Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. Sir T. Elyot.
• COMFORTABLY
  In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• OVERLABOR
  1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. 2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• ELABORATION
  The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
• UNLABORED
  1. Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden. 2. Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field. 3. Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an unlabored style or work. Tickell.