adj
Meaning 1
hassling; hasslesome
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hassle
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈhæsl̩/
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rhymes with -æsəl
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CMU ARPABET: HH AE1 S AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- I went through a lot of hassle to be the first to get a ticket.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A fight or argument.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disturb, irritate, molest, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug, get, grate, burn up, bedevil, cheese off, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irk, jazz, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, peeve off, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, rile, rile up, roil, storm, test someone's patience, tick off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, tee off, torque off
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To pick a fight or start an argument with.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: look for trouble, pick a quarrel
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To work through something troublesome; to be bothered by.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- If you don't want to hassle through converting formats, you'll have to stick with one program.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grind
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To engage in a mock dogfight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
disorderly fighting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scuffle, tussle, dogfight, rough-and-tumble
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fight, fighting, combat, scrap
noun
Meaning 10
an angry disturbance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he didn't want to make a fuss
- they had labor trouble
- a spot of bother
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fuss, trouble, bother
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: perturbation, disturbance
verb
Meaning 11
annoy continually or chronically
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
- This man harasses his female co-workers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: harass, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
Narrower terms: needle, goad, torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, haze
History
Etymology
Unknown. Probably from US Southern dialectal hassle (“to pant, breathe noisily”), possibly from haste + -le (frequentative suffix).
Across languages
Translations
102 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: неприятност (neprijatnost) — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Bulgarian: проблем (problem) — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Czech: potíže — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Czech: nepříjemnosti — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Danish: besvær — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Danish: bøvl — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Danish: mas — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Finnish: sählinki — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Finnish: sähläys — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- French: tracas — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- French: peine — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- German: Ärger — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- German: Schererei — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Italian: inconveniente — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Italian: problema — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Norwegian: styr — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Persian: دردسر (dardesar) — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Polish: kłopot — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Polish: problem — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Russian: барье́р (barʹjér) — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Russian: прегра́да (pregráda) — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Russian: поме́ха (poméxa) — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Russian: препя́тствие (prepjátstvije) — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Russian: тру́дность (trúdnostʹ) — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Russian: моро́ка (moróka) — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Russian: геморро́й (gemorrój) — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Russian: нервотрёпка (nervotrjópka) — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: lío — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: apuro — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: tropiezo — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: fastidio — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: joda — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: vaina — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: mierda — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: molestia — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: follón — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: gaita — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: fastidieta — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Spanish: ladilla — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Swedish: besvär — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Swedish: krångel — trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems
- Bulgarian: спор (spor) — fight or argument
- Bulgarian: караница (karanica) — fight or argument
- Danish: skænderi — fight or argument
- Danish: slagsmål — fight or argument
- Finnish: riita — fight or argument
- Finnish: kina — fight or argument
- French: dispute — fight or argument
- French: lutte — fight or argument
- German: Streit — fight or argument
- German: Zank — fight or argument
- Polish: kłótnia — fight or argument
- Russian: ссо́ра (ssóra) — fight or argument
- Spanish: jaleo — fight or argument
- Spanish: bronca — fight or argument
- Spanish: pelea — fight or argument
- Spanish: riña — fight or argument
- Czech: potíže — action which is not worth the difficulty involved
- Czech: nepříjemnosti — action which is not worth the difficulty involved
- Dutch: poeha — action which is not worth the difficulty involved
- German: Mühe — action which is not worth the difficulty involved
- Spanish: molestia — action which is not worth the difficulty involved
- Spanish: complicación — action which is not worth the difficulty involved
- Spanish: mucha cosa — action which is not worth the difficulty involved
- Bulgarian: дразня (draznja) — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Bulgarian: безпокоя (bezpokoja) — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Chinese Mandarin: 騷攪 /骚搅 (sāojiǎo) — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Danish: chikanere — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Danish: genere — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Danish: plage — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Finnish: kiusata — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- French: harceler — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- German: ärgern — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- German: nerven — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- German: plagen — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Hindi: तंग करना (taṅg karnā) — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Hindi: सिर खाना (sir khānā) — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Māori: hawene — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Māori: whakatōwenewene — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Māori: whakahōhā — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Māori: whakangari — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Portuguese: incomodar — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Portuguese: aborrecer — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Russian: донима́ть (donimátʹ) — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Russian: надоеда́ть (nadojedátʹ) — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Russian: докуча́ть (dokučátʹ) — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Russian: напряга́ть (naprjagátʹ) — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Russian: достава́ть (dostavátʹ) — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Spanish: molestar — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Spanish: fastidiar — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Spanish: fregar — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Spanish: aperrear — To trouble, to bother, to annoy
- Bulgarian: карам се (karam se) — To pick a fight or start an argument
- Bulgarian: споря (sporja) — To pick a fight or start an argument
- Finnish: kiusata — To pick a fight or start an argument
- French: provoquer — To pick a fight or start an argument
- German: provozieren — To pick a fight or start an argument
- Polish: zadzierać — To pick a fight or start an argument
- Polish: zadrzeć — To pick a fight or start an argument
- Russian: спо́рить (spóritʹ) — To pick a fight or start an argument
- Russian: ссо́риться (ssóritʹsja) — To pick a fight or start an argument
- Spanish: provocar — To pick a fight or start an argument