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pain in the neck

noun

1 pain in the neck

A bothersome annoying person.

synonyms: nuisance, pain.

is a specific kind of: disagreeable person, unpleasant person.

Dutch: pijn, lastpost
Polish: utrapieniec

2 pain in the neck

Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness.

synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass.

is a specific kind of: negative stimulus.

is a broader term that covers: nuisance | irritant, thorn | plague.

derivation: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex | bother | anguish, hurt, pain | bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble.

Dutch: hinder, last, overlast

Moby thesaurus: aggravation, annoyance, bad news, bedevilment, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, buttonholer, crashing bore, devilment, difficulty, dogging, downer, drag, drip, dryasdust, dusty, exasperation, flat tire ... show more.

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