All gadfly synonyms
gad·fly
G g noun gadfly
- motivator — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- annoyance — Annoyance is the feeling that you get when someone makes you feel fairly angry or impatient.
- irritant — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
- pest — a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest)
- prod — to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
- spur — a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.
- mover — a person or thing that moves.
- nuisance — an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.: a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure.
- meddler — to involve oneself in a matter without right or invitation; interfere officiously and unwantedly: Stop meddling in my personal life!
- busybody — If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.
- irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- tormentor — a person or thing that torments.
- pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- stirrer — a person or thing that stirs.
- energizer — A person who, or a thing which energizes.
- stimulator — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.