All vexing synonyms
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V v adj vexing
- disturbing β upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- dickens β Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812β70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840β41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
- galling β that galls; chafing; irritating; vexing; exasperating.
- mischievous β maliciously or playfully annoying.
- difficult β not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- for the birds β any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- irksome β annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome: irksome restrictions.
- disquieting β Archaic. uneasy; disquieted.
- bothersome β Someone or something that is bothersome is annoying or irritating.
- ill-behaved β 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
noun vexing
- brickbat β Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- molestation β to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- bedevilment β to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- harassment β the act or an instance of harassing, or disturbing, pestering, or troubling repeatedly; persecution: She sued her boss for sexual harassment.
- casus belli β an event or act used to justify a war
- grabber β a person or thing that grabs.
adjective vexing
- worrisome β worrying, annoying, or disturbing; causing worry: a worrisome problem.
- harrowing β extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- infestive β Tending to infest; acting like an infection.
- agitative β tending to stir or agitate
- nettlesome β causing irritation, vexation, or annoyance: to cope with a nettlesome situation.
- irritating β causing irritation; annoying; provoking: irritating questions.
- frustrating β to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- maddening β driving to madness or frenzy: a maddening thirst.
- junky β of the nature of junk; trashy.
- enigmatical β Pertaining to an enigma.
- exasperating β Intensely irritating; infuriating.
- grating β a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- aggravating β causing or full of aggravation: I've had an aggravating day.