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Definition: Bothered |
BotheredAdjective1. Caused to show discomposure; "refused to be fazed by the objections". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bothered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | BOTHERED or BOTH-EARED. Talked to at both ears by different persons at the same time, confounded, confused. IRISH PHRASE. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: BotheredSynonyms: daunted (adj), fazed (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bothered |
| English words defined with "bothered": bother, botheration ♦ mind. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bothered": BOTH-EARED ♦ DIAZ ♦ netlag ♦ RTFM. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm single again, but I never bothered to remove the frost (Uncle Buck; writing credit: John Hughes.) I didn't say it bothered me. (Life with Bonnie; writing credit: Bonnie Hunt) She never bothered me again (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner) Oh, for heaven's sake, mankind, it's only four light years away, you know. I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) Eh, I guess Providence can't be bothered to perform miracles for my sake (Hold Back Tomorrow; writing credit: Hugo Haas) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shot and Bothered (1966) Bothered by a Beard (1945) Hot and Bothered (1931) | |
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| "Pregnant Woman and Child (Sepi" by Shawn Sutherland Commentary: "I'm reposting the original in a larger size because so many people seemed to like the original and were bothered by its smaller size. I'm also including some other photos from the series. All are sepia-toned and have been touched up very lightly in Photos" |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Eat foods cold or at room temperature so you won't be bothered by strong smells. (references) | |
The first step is to decide how much you are bothered by menopause symptoms such as hot flashes. (references) | ||
The patient is sometimes also bothered by the general discomfort that can occur while using these devices. (references) | ||
Business | This personal assistant is targeted to independent professionals, liberal professions and people who work from home and wish to remain reachable but not bothered by phone calls 24-hours a day. According to France Telecom, this potentially means one million people in the Paris region alone. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brazil | No further information was available concerning reports that in November 2000, a local police officer was arrested near Boa Vista, Roraima, on the accusation that he had participated in the killing of seven adolescents whose noisy party had bothered him. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Marla Hanson | Well, I had a hard time accepting that right away, but I think what bothered people weren't so much the scars but what they represented, the violence. I think that really bothered people. |
Mikhail Baryshnikov | Next question. It bothered, of course. And some of the mostly totally speculatively things they're not truth and they're known. But I guess I was accepting this as a part of the cultural need for that kind of thing, you know. |
Rush Limbaugh | So you see, those who hoped Saddam Hussein would allow them to shield schools and hospitals rather than oil refineries and power stations, clearly had not bothered to find out anything about Saddam Hussein. |
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| "Bothered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 80.06% of the time. "Bothered" is used about 1,293 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 80.06% | 1,035 | 7,176 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 19.09% | 247 | 18,964 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.85% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,293 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bothered": hot and bothered. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bewildered bewitched bothered | 12 |
bewildered bewitched bothered lyrics | 8 |
hot and bothered | 5 |
bothered | 5 |
bewildered bewitched bothered ella fitzgerald lyrics | 4 |
bothered dragon dungeon | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bothered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 打扰 (Bothering). (various references) | |
Finnish | en viitsinyt (I couldn't be bothered to), anteeksi (en kuullut, että vaivasin, excuse me, I beg your pardon, pardon, sorry, sorry to have bothered you). (various references) | |
German | geplagt (afflicted with, plagued), behelligte. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוטרח (troubled, wearied). (various references) | |
Italian | seccato (annoyed, fed up, sore). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 苦になる (to be bothered, to suffer), 困る (to be bothered, to be worried), 困る (to be bothered, to be worried), 寒がる (to be bothered by coldness, to complain about the cold). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くになる (to be bothered, to suffer), さむがる (to be bothered by coldness, to complain about the cold), こまる (to be bothered, to be worried). (various references) | |
Korean | 성가시게 하는. (various references) | |
Manx | fo boirey, boirit (agitated, concerned, confused, disturbed, edgy, embarrassed, grieved, perplexed, pestered, preoccupied, teased, vexed, woeful, worried). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otheredbay.(various references) | |
Swedish | besvärade (inconvenienced), besvärad (awkward, embarrassed, self conscious, troubled). (various references) | |
Thai | เป็นทุกข์เป็นร้อน. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Bothered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berthefred, blootered, boatered, Bochenek, Bonheure, Boterel, Botherer, Botherim, Bothrio, gophered, Nbthere, Oethelred, Rothermel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bothered" (pronounced bÄ"therd) |
| 4 | -Ä" th er d | fathered. |
| 3 | -th er d | feathered, furthered, gathered, grandfathered, smothered, tethered, weathered, withered. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-h-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: berthed. | |
-2 letters: bother, debtor, dehort, herbed, hereto, hetero, hotbed, teredo. | |
-3 letters: beret, berth, bored, brede, breed, broth, deter, doeth, doter, erode, ether, heder, horde, orbed, other, robed, thebe, there, three, throb, throe, treed, trode. | |
-4 letters: beer, beet, beth, bode, bore, bort, both, bred, bree, debt, deer, deet, dere, doer, dore, dote, doth, dree, hebe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-h-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: bethorned, betrothed, brothered. | |
+2 letters: betrotheds, broadsheet. | |
+3 letters: broadsheets. | |
+4 letters: mouthbreeder, weatherboard. | |
+5 letters: brokenhearted, mouthbreeders, weatherboards. | |
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