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bothering

bothering adjective: that bothers; annoying, irritating. Also the present participle and gerund of bother.

Adjective

bothering (comparative more bothering, superlative most bothering)

  1. That bothers; annoying, irritating.
    • ‘I never told you, I had a bothering experience with him. Nothing came of it fortunately.’1973, Christina Stead, The Little Hotel, Text Classics, published 2016, page 177

Noun

bothering (plural botherings)

  1. The act or habit of troubling or disturbing someone.

Also used as

bothering is also the present participle and gerund of bother.

bothering meaning in Nepali

bothering in Nepali

परेशान गर्ने, परेशान गर्दै

Forms of bothering

Adjective
comparativemore bothering
superlativemost bothering
Noun
pluralbotherings

Words formed from bothering

Phrases with bothering

Questions about bothering

What does bothering mean?
Bothering means that bothers; annoying, irritating.
What is bothering in Nepali?
Bothering in Nepali is परेशान गर्ने, परेशान गर्दै. See Bothering meaning in Nepali.
What part of speech is bothering?
Bothering can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near bothering in the dictionary

  1. bothered
  2. bothered one's arse
  3. botherer
  4. botherers
  5. botherin'
  6. bothering
  7. bothering one's arse
  8. botherings
  9. botherless
  10. botherment
  11. botherments

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bothering (page history and authors); bothering (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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