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100 Best Synonyms for “Bother”

August 9, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. affront to offend or insult
2. agitate to disturb or make anxious
3. alarm to cause fear or concern
4. anger to make angry
5. annoy to irritate or disturb someone
6. badger to pester persistently
7. bait to provoke or tease
8. bedevil to trouble persistently
9. beset to trouble from all sides
10. bug to annoy or bother informally
11. burden to weigh down or trouble
12. cause concern to make someone worried
13. cause problems to create difficulties
14. cause trouble to create difficulty or annoyance
15. chafe to irritate or annoy
16. concern to worry or trouble someone
17. discompose to unsettle or disturb composure
18. disconcert to unsettle or embarrass
19. disquiet to make worried or uneasy
20. disrupt to interrupt or disturb
21. distract to divert attention or disturb focus
22. disturb to interrupt or trouble someone
23. dog to trouble or pursue persistently
24. drive mad to annoy extremely
25. eat at to worry or irritate gradually
26. enrage to make very angry
27. exasperate to irritate intensely
28. faze to disturb or disconcert
29. fluster to make nervous or confused
30. fret to worry or make anxious
31. frustrate to annoy by blocking progress
32. gall to irritate deeply
33. get on one’s nerves to annoy greatly
34. get to to annoy or upset
35. get under one’s skin to annoy deeply
36. give grief to cause trouble or annoyance
37. give trouble to cause difficulty or worry
38. gnaw at to worry or trouble persistently
39. grate to irritate sharply
40. harass to trouble repeatedly and aggressively
41. hassle to annoy or cause difficulty
42. haunt to trouble the mind repeatedly
43. heckle to interrupt with annoying comments
44. hold up to delay or inconvenience
45. hound to pursue or pester relentlessly
46. hurt to cause pain or upset
47. impose on to inconvenience someone unfairly
48. inconvenience to cause trouble or difficulty
49. infuriate to anger greatly
50. interrupt to break into or stop
51. irk to irritate or annoy
52. irritate to annoy or make impatient
53. jar to disturb unpleasantly
54. jolt to shock or disturb
55. madden to make extremely angry
56. make anxious to cause anxiety or worry
57. make uncomfortable to cause discomfort
58. make uneasy to cause discomfort or worry
59. meddle with to interfere annoyingly
60. mess with to annoy or interfere with
61. miff to annoy slightly
62. molest to harass or disturb
63. nag to complain or pester repeatedly
64. needle to provoke or annoy repeatedly
65. nettle to irritate or provoke
66. nudge to prompt or mildly pester
67. offend to upset or insult
68. oppress to burden or distress
69. peeve to annoy or irritate
70. persecute to harass or oppress persistently
71. perturb to disturb or worry
72. pester to repeatedly annoy or bother
73. plague to trouble repeatedly or persistently
74. prey on to trouble persistently
75. provoke to stir irritation or anger
76. put out to inconvenience or annoy
77. rankle to cause lasting irritation
78. rattle to upset or unsettle
79. rile to annoy or anger
80. roil to disturb or agitate
81. rub the wrong way to irritate someone
82. ruffle to disturb calm or composure
83. shake to upset or unsettle
84. strain to put under pressure
85. tax to strain or burden
86. tease to annoy playfully or cruelly
87. torment to cause severe distress
88. torture to torment severely
89. trouble to worry or inconvenience someone
90. try to test patience severely
91. unhinge to upset mentally or emotionally
92. unnerve to make nervous or upset
93. unsettle to disturb or make uneasy
94. upset to make unhappy or unsettled
95. vex to annoy or frustrate
96. wear on to irritate over time
97. wear out to exhaust or irritate
98. weigh down to burden or depress
99. weigh on to worry or burden
100. worry to make anxious or concerned

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