Word Meanings - ANNOY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy Prior. 2. To molest,

Additional info about word: ANNOY

disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy Prior. 2. To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade. Syn. -- To molest; vex; trouble; pester; embarrass; perplex; tease.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANNOY)

• Aggrieve
• Wound
• trouble
• annoy
• hurt
• vex
• disappoint
• molest
• maltreat
• grieve
• afflict
• injure
• wrong
• Bother
• Fuse
• worry
• pester
• excitement
• stir
• plague
• tease
• confusion
• vexation
• flurry
• Chafe
• Gall
• rub
• irritate
• chagrin
• harass
• calcitrate
• re sent
• resist
• fret
• fidget
• writhe
• Distress Harass
• embarrass
• mortify
• pain
• disturb
• Disturb
• Derange
• discompose
• disorder
• discommode
• confuse
• rouse
• agitate
• interrupt
• incommode
• disquiet

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ANNOY)

• Soothe
• compose
• quiet
• calm
• mesmerize
• Compose
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to ANNOY)

• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• FIDGETY
  Restless; uneasy. Lowell.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• INCOMMODE
  An inconvenience. Strype.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• WRONG
  1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
• AFFLICTING
  Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
• DISQUIETMENT
  State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.
• CALCITRATE
  To kick.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.