hassle

1. 1.

   annoy continually or chronically

   “He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”

   “This man harasses his female co-workers”

   Synonymsharassharrychivychivvychevychevvybesetplaguemolestprovoke

   Broaderannoy

   Narrowerneedletormenthaze

Other forms of hassle

plural

hassles·

past tense

hassled·

present participle

hassling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hassle

What does hassle mean?

hassle means "an angry disturbance". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hassle?

hassle has 2 syllables: has-sle. The stress falls on "has". In IPA it is /ˈhæsəl/.

What is another word for hassle?

Close synonyms include fuss, trouble, bother, scuffle, tussle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hassle a common word?

hassle is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hassle?

1 word rhymes with hassle. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.