Irritate vs Hassle - What's the difference?
irritate | hassle |
(lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
(lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
(lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
(lb) To render null and void.
:(Archbishop Bramhall)
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.
As verbs the difference between irritate and hassle
is that irritate is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure while hassle is to trouble, to bother, to annoy.As a noun hassle is
trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.irritate
English
Verb
(irritat)Synonyms
* provoke * rileAntonyms
* pleasehassle
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.
