BOTHER meaning: Cause annoyance or inconvenience to

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word bother:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

bother: Merriam-Webster.com
bother: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bother: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bother: Collins English Dictionary
bother: Vocabulary.com
Bother, bother: Wordnik
bother: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
bother: Wiktionary
bother: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bother: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bother: Infoplease Dictionary
Bother, bother: Dictionary.com
bother: Online Etymology Dictionary
bother: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Bother (song), Bother: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Bother: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bother: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
bother: Rhymezone
bother: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
bother: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
BOTHER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
bother: Free Dictionary
bother: Mnemonic Dictionary
bother: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
bother: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

bother: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

bother: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

bother: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

bother, bother: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Bother: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
bother: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
▸ verb:  (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
▸ verb:  To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
▸ noun:  Fuss, ado.
▸ noun:  Trouble, inconvenience.

Opposite:

assist, soothe, comfort, aid, facilitate

Types:

pain, trouble, worry, headache, heartache, pain in the ass, more...

Phrases:

why bother, save the bother, saved the bother, saves the bother, saving the bother, more...

Colors:

red, gray, black, brown, dark blue, maroon, olive, burgundy, charcoal, rust

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