English > pain in the neck: 2 senses > noun 2, cognitionMeaning | Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness. |
---|
Synonyms | annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the ass |
---|
Narrower | irritant, thorn | Something that causes irritation and annoyance |
---|
nuisance | (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers / endangers life and health or is offensive |
plague | An annoyance |
Broader | negative stimulus | A stimulus with undesirable consequences |
---|
Spanish | aburrimiento, fastidio, irritación, joroba, lata, macanazo, molestia, molienda, puñeta |
---|
Catalan | destorb, enuig, enutjament, molèstia, nosa, tabarra |
---|