All irritating synonyms
ir·ri·tat·ing
I i adj irritating
- disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- annoying — Someone or something that is annoying makes you feel fairly angry and impatient.
- bothersome — Someone or something that is bothersome is annoying or irritating.
- trying — extremely annoying, difficult, or the like; straining one's patience and goodwill to the limit: a trying day; a trying experience.
- provoking — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
adjective irritating
- exasperating — Intensely irritating; infuriating.
- irksome — annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome: irksome restrictions.
- infuriating — Archaic. infuriated.
- frustrating — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- grating — a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- nauseating — causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.
- galling — that galls; chafing; irritating; vexing; exasperating.
- vexing — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- vexatious — causing vexation; troublesome; annoying: a vexatious situation.
adverb irritating
- underfoot — under the foot or feet; on the ground; underneath or below: The climb was difficult because there were so many rocks underfoot.
noun irritating
- ribbing — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.