What is another word for give a hard time?
528 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɡˈɪv ɐ hˈɑːd tˈa͡ɪm], [ ɡˈɪv ɐ hˈɑːd tˈaɪm], [ ɡ_ˈɪ_v ɐ h_ˈɑː_d t_ˈaɪ_m]
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Similar words for give a hard time:
- aggravate (verb)
- annoy (verb)
- badger (verb)
- be or make very upset (verb)
- beset (verb)
- bother, trouble (verb)
- bother, worry (verb)
- chide (verb)
- criticize, lecture (verb)
- distress (verb)
- embarrass (verb)
- harass (verb)
- henpeck (verb)
- incommode (verb)
- inconvenience (verb)
- irk (verb)
- kid around (verb)
- nag (verb)
- pique (verb)
- plague; hem in (verb)
- tease (verb)
- torment (verb)
- trouble (verb)
- upset (verb)
- vex (verb)
- other synonyms
- aggravate
- beset
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Give a hard time:
v.
• aggravate (verb)- pester,
- dog,
- hack,
- nag,
- exasperate,
- be on the back of,
- be at,
- irritate,
- get on one's nerves,
- pick on,
- tease,
- give a hard time,
- vex,
- needle,
- irk,
- bother,
- drive up the wall,
- bug,
- get to,
- peeve,
- get,
- pique,
- grate,
- wig,
- provoke,
- nettle,
- gall.
- embarrass,
- attack,
- storm,
- encompass,
- give the needle,
- entangle,
- harry,
- badger,
- compass,
- encircle,
- give a bad time,
- overrun,
- nudge,
- besiege,
- environ,
- fall on,
- ride,
- invade,
- surround,
- perplex,
- beleaguer,
- start in on,
- girdle,
- bedevil,
- ring,
- aggress,
- fall upon,
- assail,
- strike,
- infest,
- enclose,
- give one the business,
- put the squeeze on,
- hassle,
- jump on one's case.
- rate,
- speak to,
- admonish,
- find fault,
- castigate,
- take down a peg,
- call down,
- lesson,
- flay,
- slap on the wrist,
- scold,
- tick off,
- condemn,
- upbraid,
- take down,
- exprobate,
- reprove,
- monish,
- call on the carpet,
- rebuke,
- berate,
- blame,
- reprimand,
- censure,
- talk to,
- reprehend,
- tell off,
- check,
- reproach.
- discombobulate,
- depress,
- grieve,
- desolate,
- aggrieve,
- strap,
- strain,
- disturb,
- nit-pick,
- agonize,
- stress,
- make it tough for,
- weigh,
- torture,
- pain,
- injure,
- burn up,
- push,
- push buttons,
- disquiet,
- hound,
- try,
- wound,
- ail,
- sadden,
- rack,
- afflict,
- do a number on,
- oppress,
- break,
- be on one's case,
- miff,
- plague,
- hurt.
- faze,
- catch one short,
- distract,
- make a monkey of,
- dumbfound,
- put in a spot,
- fluster,
- nonplus,
- hang up,
- shame,
- put in a hole,
- discountenance,
- puzzle,
- disconcert,
- abash,
- agitate,
- annoy,
- chagrin,
- mortify,
- put out of countenance,
- show up,
- stun,
- bewilder,
- discompose,
- throw into a tizzy,
- perturb,
- discomfit,
- rattle,
- put on the spot,
- distress,
- throw,
- confuse.
- persecute,
- exhaust,
- work on,
- worry,
- gnaw,
- heckle,
- raid,
- tire,
- despoil,
- bullyrag,
- macerate,
- foray,
- maraud,
- weary,
- rattle one's cage,
- intimidate,
- noodge,
- fatigue,
- jerk around,
- bait.
- dis comforts,
- dis-comforted,
- in-commodes,
- dis comforted,
- dis-comforts,
- dis-comforting,
- dis comfort,
- in commode,
- in commodes,
- dis comforting,
- in-commode,
- dis-comfort.
- incommode,
- put out,
- rile,
- abrade,
- fret,
- rasp,
- make waves,
- get on nerves,
- ruffle.
- carp at,
- Egged,
- carped at,
- carping at,
- Egging,
- Henpeck,
- carps at,
- taking out on,
- took out on,
- taking it out on,
- takes it out on,
- took it out on,
- takes out on,
- take it out on,
- take out on.
- dis-pleasing,
- getting a rise out of,
- gets rise out of,
- dis please,
- fires up,
- fire up,
- ex cite,
- gat a rise out of,
- dis pleases,
- get a rise out of,
- in-censed,
- in censes,
- gat rise out of,
- goosed,
- in-censing,
- get under skin,
- gotten rise out of,
- ex-cites,
- get rise out of,
- goosing,
- dis pleasing,
- give the business,
- ex cited,
- gotten a rise out of,
- in cense,
- ex citing,
- getting rise out of,
- ex-cited,
- got a rise out of,
- got rise out of,
- dis-pleases,
- in-censes,
- gooses,
- dis-pleased,
- in-cense,
- in censed,
- firing up,
- ex cites,
- dis pleased,
- ex-cite,
- dis-please,
- gets a rise out of.
- spoofing,
- swiped at,
- send up,
- teasing,
- spoofed,
- swiping at,
- jives,
- swipe at,
- sends up,
- jiving,
- jive,
- sent up,
- sending up,
- swipes at.
- ex-cruciate,
- drave bananas,
- puts through wringer,
- mis treating,
- rubbing salt in wound,
- mis treats,
- play cat and mouse,
- drive bananas,
- ex cruciate,
- mis treat,
- rubbed salt in wound,
- playing cat mouse,
- playing cat and mouse,
- drove bananas,
- mis-treat,
- rub salt wound,
- plays cat mouse,
- played cat mouse,
- rub salt in wound,
- plays cat and mouse,
- driving bananas,
- rubs salt in wound,
- mis-treats,
- drives bananas,
- put through wringer,
- boned,
- mis-treated,
- Boning,
- putting through wringer,
- played cat and mouse,
- mis treated,
- rubbed salt wound,
- rubs salt wound,
- play cat mouse,
- rubbing salt wound.
- made a scene,
- making fuss,
- stir up,
- imposed on,
- flip out,
- making a scene,
- troubling,
- imposing on,
- imposes on,
- stirs up,
- make scene,
- makes fuss,
- impose on,
- makes scene,
- makes a fuss,
- stirring up,
- make fuss,
- made a fuss,
- making a fuss,
- made fuss,
- stirred up,
- troubled,
- make a fuss,
- psychs,
- making scene,
- made scene,
- makes a scene,
- psyching,
- make a scene.
- dis maying,
- dis-mayed,
- dis may,
- de-ranges,
- in capacitate,
- keying up,
- throw balance,
- in disposed,
- de ranging,
- dis-mays,
- un nerves,
- threw balance,
- adjy,
- Pothering,
- un-settle,
- un hinges,
- de-range,
- de ranges,
- un-hinging,
- Pothered,
- in-dispose,
- in-disposed,
- in disposes,
- un settles,
- dis mayed,
- up-sets,
- throwing off balance,
- rock boat,
- un nerved,
- un-nerve,
- un settling,
- un hinging,
- un-hinge,
- in capacitates,
- keyed up,
- key up,
- un nerving,
- up sets,
- threw off balance,
- un-settling,
- dis mays,
- in-capacitating,
- adjied,
- adjying,
- de-ranging,
- un settle,
- un hinge,
- indisposes,
- throw off balance,
- dis-may,
- de-ranged,
- in-disposing,
- adjies,
- in-disposes,
- un-nerving,
- indispose,
- de range,
- un hinged,
- keys up,
- un-settled,
- throwing balance,
- up-set,
- Indisposing,
- throws off balance,
- un nerve,
- in-capacitated,
- in disposing,
- up setting,
- in dispose,
- in capacitated,
- un-hinges,
- up-setting,
- un settled,
- up set,
- de ranged,
- throws balance,
- in-capacitate,
- dis-maying,
- un-hinged,
- in capacitating.
- got in hair,
- got one's hair,
- gets one hair,
- getting hair,
- gets ones hair,
- get in ones hair,
- gets one's hair,
- getting one hair,
- gets in one hair,
- got hair,
- get under one skin,
- grating on,
- get hair,
- gat one hair,
- gets in hair,
- gotten in one hair,
- gotten in one's hair,
- gets in one's hair,
- get one's hair,
- grates on,
- gat ones hair,
- got one hair,
- get in one's hair,
- gotten hair,
- get in hair,
- get in one hair,
- getting in one's hair,
- gotten one's hair,
- gotten in ones hair,
- gotten in hair,
- gotten ones hair,
- gotten one hair,
- get under ones skin,
- grated on,
- getting in hair,
- get one hair,
- getting in ones hair,
- grate on,
- gets hair,
- getting in one hair,
- gat in hair,
- got in one hair,
- get ones hair,
- gat in one hair,
- gat in one's hair,
- got in one's hair,
- getting ones hair,
- gat hair,
- gat one's hair,
- gets in ones hair,
- got ones hair,
- gat in ones hair,
- got in ones hair,
- getting one's hair.
Other synonyms:
• aggravate- Bumming,
- Hacking,
- getting to,
- wigging,
- irritates,
- Nettles,
- wigged,
- needling,
- gets to,
- Bummed,
- got to,
- Hacked.
How to use "Give a hard time" in context?
When one people consistently gives a hard time to another person, it can be irritating and tiresome. It's like living with someone who is always complaining and always negative. It can be tough to take and can lead to tension and animosity. It's important to remember that not everyone is going to be the same, and not everyone is going to like the same things. It's okay to give a hard time to someone only when it's warranted and when it's done in a respectable way. Be sure to take care not to give a hard time just for the sake of giving a hard time.
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