annoy

Plural: annoys

Verb

Verb Forms: annoyed, annoying, annoys

• To irritate or bother someone.
• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
• To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
• To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
• To molest; to harm; to injure.

Noun

• A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
• That which causes such a feeling.

Examples

• It never fails to ANNOY me when my opponent draws the last ’S’.
• Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.
• to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

Synonyms

bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex, Idioms:, abuse, aggravate, annoy, annoyance, antagonize, bedevil, bewound, boil someone's piss, botherate, bug, burn up, chap someone's hide, cheese off, damage, damnify, dere, disgruntle, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, exasperate, forwork, frustrate, get, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's Irish up, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get up, give someone the shits, grate, grieve, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harm, harrow, harsh one's mellow, hassle, hurt, injure, irk, jazz, maul, misdo, molest, mommick, pee off, peeve, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, put someone in hospital, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rankle, rile up, roil, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, scaith, scathe, sting, storm, tee off, test someone's patience, tick off, torque off, trouble, try one's patience, vulnerate, wet, wind up, wound

Antonyms

comfort, please, soothe

Related Words

annoyed