Hassle vs Dazzle - What's the difference?
hassle | dazzle |
Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
A fight or argument.
An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.
To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
To pick a fight or start an argument.
To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
* Milton
* Sir H. Taylor
(figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
* Francis Bacon
* Dryden
A light of dazzling brilliancy.
(uncommon) A herd of zebra.
* 1958', Laurens Van der Post, ''The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory'' (' 1998 David Coulson edition):
* 2009 , Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts , page 176:
* 2010 , Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa , page 22:
As nouns the difference between hassle and dazzle
is that hassle is trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems while dazzle is a light of dazzling brilliancy.As verbs the difference between hassle and dazzle
is that hassle is to trouble, to bother, to annoy while dazzle is to confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.hassle
English
Noun
(en noun)- I went through a lot of hassle to be the first to get a ticket.
Verb
(hassl)- The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home.
Anagrams
* * *dazzle
English
Verb
(dazzl)- Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
- Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.
- An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.
- The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
- An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle .
- I dare not trust these eyes; / They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise.
Derived terms
* dazzler * dazzlementNoun
(s)- We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly
- Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt,
- I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.
