Word Meanings - VEXED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Annoyed; harassed; troubled. 2. Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VEXED)

• Sorry
• Grieved
• pained
• hurt
• afflicted
• woe-begone
• doleful
• downhearted
• mortified
• vexed
• dejected
• poor
• mean
• vile
• shabby
• worthless

Related words: (words related to VEXED)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• VEXILLAR; VEXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. Vexilary æstivation , a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants. (more info)
• 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;
• MORTIFIER
  One who, or that which, mortifies.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• GRIEVABLE
  Lamentable.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• AFFLICTING
  Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
• VEXINGLY
  In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate. Tatler.
• AFFLICTION
  1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• PAINTER
  A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• VEXILLUM
  The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard. (more info) A flag or standard. A company of troops serving under one standard. A banner. The sign of the cross.
• WOE-BEGONE
  Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.
• VEXILLATION
  A company of troops under one vexillum.
• PAINTED
  Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are
• AFFLICTIONLESS
  Free from affliction.
• PAINFUL
  1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking;
• GAINPAIN
  Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• CONVEXED
  Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.
• AGGRIEVANCE
  Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
• CONVEXEDNESS
  Convexity.
• ENGRIEVE
  To grieve. Spenser.
• CONVEX
  Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a
• OVERPAINT
  To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.