different between aggravation vs botheration
aggravation
English
Etymology
From Middle French aggravation.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
aggravation (countable and uncountable, plural aggravations)
- The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
- Synonym: exacerbation
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 10
- Adrian, whose health had always been weak, now suffered considerable aggravation of suffering from the effects of his wound.
- Exaggerated representation.
- An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
- (informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
Related terms
- aggravate
Translations
Further reading
- “aggravation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- aggravation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- aggravation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
aggravation f (plural aggravations)
- aggravation
Further reading
- “aggravation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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botheration
English
Etymology
From bother +? -ation (suffix indicating an action or process, or its result).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?ð???e??n?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?ð???e??(?)n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: bo?ther?a?tion
Interjection
botheration (originally Ireland, dated, often humorous)
- A mild expression of annoyance or exasperation: bother!
- 1918, Katherine Mansfield, "Prelude" in Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2002, p. 120
- Botheration! How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way.
- 1955, C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, Collins, 1998, Chapter 3,
- "Blast and botheration!" exclaimed Digory. "What's gone wrong now? [...]"
- 1918, Katherine Mansfield, "Prelude" in Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2002, p. 120
Translations
Noun
botheration (countable and uncountable, plural botherations) (originally Ireland, dated, often humorous)
- (uncountable) The state of being bothered; annoyance, vexation.
- Synonyms: irritation; see also Thesaurus:annoyance
- 1803, William Blake, Letter to his brother James Blake dated 30 January, 1803, in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1970, p. 696,
- I write in great haste & with a head full of botheration about various projected works [...]
- 1982, Saul Bellow, The Dean's December, New York: Pocket Books, 1983, Chapter 4, p. 59,
- At home he read too many papers. He was better off without his daily dose of world botheration, sham happenings, without newspaper phrases.
- (countable) An act of bothering or annoying.
- (countable) A person or thing that causes bother, inconvenience, trouble, etc.
- Synonym: nuisance
- 1954, Peter De Vries, The Tunnel of Love, New York: Popular Library, Chapter Six, p. 63,
- [...] the by-products and botherations that go with pleasures make it hardly worth it. Sex is supposedly life's greatest pleasure and look what it gives you.
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