annoy
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (1)annoys, annoyed, annoying
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations“Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me”“It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves”Synonyms: ragget tobotherget atirritaterilenarknettlegravelvexchafedevilMore general displeaseMore specific harass, antagonize, ruffle, get, fret, eat into, peeveSimilar chafe
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Translations
Verb to disturb or irritate
- Spanish
- fastidiar
- French
- gêner
- German
- ärgern
- Italian
- infastidire
- Portuguese
- irritar
- Russian
- раздража́ть razdražátʹ
- Arabic
- أَزْعَجَ ʔazʕaja
- Chinese
- 搅扰 jiǎorǎo
- Japanese
- 煩わす wazurawasu
- Dutch
- ergeren
22 more languages
- Polish
- irytować
- Swedish
- reta
- Greek
- πειράζω peirázo
- Korean
- 괴롭히다 goeropida
- Indonesian
- mengganggu
- Vietnamese
- làm phiền
- Hungarian
- bosszant
- Portuguese (PT)
- irritar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 攪擾 jiǎorǎo
- Catalan
- molestar
- Czech
- obtěžovat
- Danish
- irritere
- Esperanto
- ĉagreni
- Estonian
- ärritama
- Finnish
- ärsyttää
- Georgian
- გაღიზიანება gaɣizianeba
- Icelandic
- trufla
- Lithuanian
- dirginti
- Norwegian
- irritere
- Romanian
- deranja
- Scottish Gaelic
- cuir dragh air
- Serbo-Croatian
- iritirati
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. anoien, anuien, OF. anoier, anuier, F. ennuyer, fr. OF. anoi, anui, enui, annoyance, vexation, F. ennui. See Annoy, noun
To 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?— Matthew Prior
2. To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.
Synonyms: To molest; vex; trouble; pester; embarrass; perplex; tease.
Origin: OE. anoi, anui, OF. anoi, anui, enui, fr. L. in odio hatred (esse alicui in odio, Cic.). See Ennui, Odium, Noisome, Noy.
A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy.
Worse than Tantalus' is her annoy.— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54