Nuisance vs Anguish - What's the difference?
nuisance | anguish | Related terms |
A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
(legal) Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
* Bible, Exodus vi. 9
* Latimer
* 1889 , :
To suffer pain.
* (rfdate) 1900s , Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song , traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
To cause to suffer pain.
Nuisance is a related term of anguish.
As nouns the difference between nuisance and anguish
is that nuisance is a minor annoyance or inconvenience while anguish is extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.As a verb anguish is
to suffer pain.nuisance
English
Noun
(wikipedia nuisance) (en noun)- a public nuisance
Synonyms
* (minor annoyance or inconvenience) annoyance, inconvenience, offense * (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience) bother, obstacle, pestAntonyms
* (minor annoyance or inconvenience) enjoymentDerived terms
* nuisance tax ----anguish
English
Noun
- But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- Ye miserable people, you must go to God in anguishes , and make your prayer to him.
- A terrible scream—a prolonged yell of horror and anguish —burst out of the silence of the moor. That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.
Synonyms
* agony, calvary, cross, pang, torture, torment * See also:Verb
(es)- We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish , it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.
