Entry Word: nuisance

Function: noun

Meaning: 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