Hassle

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English

Noun

Hassle (plural Hassles)
  1. Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
    I went through a lot of hassle to be the first to get a ticket.
  2. A fight or argument.
  3. An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.

Verb

Hassle (third-person singular simple present Hassles, present participle hassling, simple past and past participle hassled)

  1. To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
    The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home.
  2. To pick a fight or start an argument.

Synonyms for Hassle

argument, controversy, dispute, fight, quarrel, disagreement, brawl, wrangle, melee, scrap.

Antonyms for Hassle

agreement, harmony.

Thesaurus

ado, agonize, altercation, anarchy, apologetics, apologia, apology, argue, argufy, argument, argumentation, bandy words, barney, battle, beef, bicker, bickering, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, buffet, bug, bump heads, carp at, casuistry, cavil, chaos, choplogic, clamor, commotion, confusion, contend, contention, contest, controversy, cross swords, cut and thrust, defense, discept, disputation, dispute, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, embroilment, endeavor, essay, fabulous formless darkness, fight, flyting, foofaraw, foul-up, fracas, free-for-all, fret at, fuss, fuss at, give and take, grunt and sweat, have it out, helter-skelter, henpeck, hubbub, huff and puff, hurly-burly, join issue, knock-down-and-drag-out, license, litigation, lock horns, logomachize, logomachy, make a row, melee, miff, misrule, mix-up, moot, morass, muddle, nag, nibble at, niggle, paper war, passage of arms, peck at, pell-mell, pester, pettifog, pick at, pick on, plead, polemic, polemicize, polemics, polemize, pother, quibble, racket, rampage, rhubarb, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, run-in, scramble, scrap, screw-up, scuffle, set-to, shindy, snafu, spar, squabble, stir, strive, striving, struggle, take sides, thrash out, to-do, trial, trouble, try, try conclusions, tumult, turmoil, tussle, undertaking, uproar, verbal engagement, war of words, whirl, wrangle, wrangling, wrestle, yap at

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈhæsl/, SAMPA: /"h{sl/
  • Rhymes: -æsəl

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