nuisance
UK/ˈnjuː.səns//ˈnuː.səns/
nuisance noun: a minor annoyance or inconvenience.
Noun
nuisance (countable and uncountable, plural nuisances)
- A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
- The neighbor's dog barking throughout the night is a right nuisance - I'm going to complain.
- What a nuisance to have to go now!
- Synonyms:
- annoyance, inconvenience, offense
- A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
- You can be such a nuisance when you don't get your way.
- With Vardy working tirelessly up front, chasing lost causes and generally making a nuisance of himself, Sevilla were never allowed to settle on a night when the atmosphere was electric inside the King Power Stadium.2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian
- Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
- a public nuisance
nuisance meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
nuisance in Hindi
- उपद्रव
nuisance in Tamil
- சள்ளை, தொந்தரவு, தொல்லை, தொந்தரை
nuisance in Urdu
- بلا, چوٹ, ناگوار, وبال, وبال جان
nuisance in Bengali
- nuisance, trouble, annoyance
- আপদ apod
More languagesFewer languages
- nuisance in Malayalam
- ഇടങ്ങേറ് iṭaṅṅēṟŭ
- nuisance in Kannada
- ತೊಂದರೆ, ಕಿರುಕುಳ, ಪೀಡೆ, ಉಪದ್ರವ
- nuisance in Gujarati
- ઉપદ્રવ
- nuisance in Arabic
- إِزْعَاج ʔizʕāj
- nuisance in Indonesian
- gangguan, orang rewel
Examples of nuisance in a sentence
- It's against the law to knowingly allow an attractive nuisance to remain in place.
- She was ordered by the court to abate the nuisance.
- The abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
Synonyms of nuisance
Antonyms
Forms of nuisance
| plural | nuisances |
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Origin of nuisance
From Middle English noysaunce, from Anglo-Norman nusaunce, nussance and Old French nuisance, from nuisir (“to harm”), from Latin nocēre. Doublet of nocence and nocency.
Words formed from nuisance
Phrases with nuisance
Questions about nuisance
- What does nuisance mean?
- Nuisance means a minor annoyance or inconvenience.
- What is nuisance in Hindi?
- Nuisance in Hindi is उपद्रव. See Nuisance meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is nuisance?
- Nuisance is a noun.
- How do you pronounce nuisance?
- Nuisance is pronounced /ˈnjuː.səns/ (UK).
- What is the plural of nuisance?
- The plural of nuisance is nuisances.
Words near nuisance in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nuisance (page history and authors); nuisance (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nuisance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nuisance (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); আপদ (Bengali) (page history and authors); ഇടങ്ങേറ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); nuisance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nuisance (Gujarati, 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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