What is another word for give a hard time?
528 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɡˈɪv ɐ hˈɑːd tˈa͡ɪm], [ ɡˈɪv ɐ hˈɑːd tˈaɪm], [ ɡ_ˈɪ_v ɐ h_ˈɑː_d t_ˈaɪ_m]Table of Contents
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
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.
Antonyms for Give a hard time:
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v.
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aggravate
gladden, make happy, appease, soften, mollify.
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chide
compliment, laud, praise.
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embarrass
please.
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harass
aid, facilitate, support.
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inconvenience
benefit, be convenient.
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irk
delight.
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aggravate