pain in the ass

Questions about pain in the ass

What does pain in the ass mean?

pain in the ass means "something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness".

What is another word for pain in the ass?

Close synonyms include annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction. 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 pain in the ass a common word?

pain in the ass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.