Infuriate vs Bother - What's the difference?
infuriate | bother |
To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage
Enraged, furious.
* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 336:
*:‘A'll not leave thee,’ said Weeper in an infuriate rage.
* Thomson
To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
* Henry James
To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
Fuss, ado.
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Trouble, inconvenience.
A mild expression of annoyance.
* 1926 , A A Milne, Winnie the Pooh'', Methuen & Co., Ltd., Chapter 2 ''...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place :
As verbs the difference between infuriate and bother
is that infuriate is to make furious or mad with anger; to enrage while bother is to annoy, to disturb, to irritate.As an adjective infuriate
is enraged, furious.As a noun bother is
fuss, ado.As an interjection bother is
a mild expression of annoyance.infuriate
English
Verb
(infuriat)Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- (Milton)
- Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.
bother
English
Verb
(en verb)- Would it bother you if I smoked?
- Why do I even bother to try?
- without bothering about it
- You didn't even bother to close the door.
Synonyms
* (annoy, disturb ): annoy, disturb, irritate, put out, vex * See alsoUsage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive'' or the ''gerund (-ing) . SeeNoun
- There was a bit of bother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book.
- Yes, I can do that for you - it's no bother .
Interjection
- "Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."
- "Oh, bother !" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."
- "I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother !"