Annoy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause slight irritation to (another) by troublesome, often repeated acts.
  • v. Archaic To harass or disturb by repeated attacks.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
  • v. To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
  • v. To molest; to harm; to injure.
  • n. A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
  • n. That which causes such a feeling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex
  • v. To molest, incommode, or harm.
  • n. A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A disturbed state of feeling arising from displeasing acts or unpleasant circumstances; discomfort; vexation; trouble; annoyance.
  • n. A thing or circumstance that causes discomfort; an annoyance.
  • n. [Now chiefly poetic; the common word in prose is annoyance.]
  • To be hateful or troublesome: followed by to.
  • [By omission of reflexive pronoun.] To be troubled, disquieted, vexed.
  • To be hateful, troublesome, or vexatious to; trouble, disquiet, disturb, vex, molest, harass, plague; irk, weary, bore, especially by repeated acts: as, to annoy a person by perpetual questioning; to annoy the enemy by raids: in the passive, followed by at or about, formerly by of.
  • Synonyms Molest, Plague, etc. (see tease), trouble, disturb, disquiet, vex, irritate, fret, embarrass, perplex.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
  • Antonym
    please    elate    pacify    calm   
    Verb Form
    annoyed    annoying    annoys   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    displease   
    Cross Reference
    irritate    trouble    tease   
    Hyponym
    harass    plague    eat into    harry    get    fret    chevvy    molest    chivvy    chevy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    trouble    vex    perplex    pester    molest    embarrass    tease    distress    disturb    plague   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Elroy    Floy    Goy    Illinois    Joy    Oi    Roy    Savoy    Troy    ahoy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Embarrass    irritate    unpleasant    disturb    uncomfortable    frustrate    nasty    troublesome    tiresome    funny