noun
nuisance
NOO-suhns/ˈnuːsns/
Something that causes annoyance or interferes with ordinary enjoyment.
The fly hovering over her food is a nuisance.
Etymology
Nuisance originally named injury or harm. The meaning softened through things harmful or obnoxious to a community to a person or thing that merely causes annoyance.
In context
the roads throughout the community were unmade dirt arrangements and this caused a pretty large nuisance for the residents and that is dust
More examples
- Broken elevators and flickering lights are daily nuisances in this building.
- Please don't make a nuisance of yourself during the meeting.
- The court rules that the factory's constant noise is a public nuisance.
Forms
nuisance · nuisances