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Definition of exasperate in English: exasperateverb ɪɡˈzasp(ə)reɪtɛɡˈzasp(ə)reɪtɪɡˈzæspəˌreɪt [with object]Irritate intensely; infuriate. this futile process exasperates prison officers Example sentencesExamples - What reasonable people on both sides of the argument share is a common desire for fairness, but what exasperates many is that tolerance should extend to those who refuse to display any of that quality to their neighbours.
- He sometimes exasperates his journalistic contacts with a steady stream of press releases crammed with statistics, but it earned him kudos and contacts with the Scottish media that are now paying off.
- If she makes one really good observation but then at another point she exasperates you with her complete failure to at all get what you're trying to tell her, do you dump her or give it another try?
- It's always more complicated than that, as annoying people are known to say with exasperating regularity.
- But speculation that he may quit Britain for America exasperates him.
- Derrida is so perversely myopic a reader, doggedly pursuing the finest flickers of meaning across a page, that he exasperates some of his opponents with his supersubtlety, not his airy generality.
- What you have to do with a book, a simple, obvious, exasperating difficult thing, is, read it.
- In contrast to his vigour and emotional buoyancy later in seeing off the so-called fuel blockade, this dark episode was equally to infuriate, exhaust and exasperate the First Minister.
- There are no more exasperating things that a neighbour can do than play dance music very loud.
- His Blair-type zeal took rotation, rotation, rotation to the most exasperating degree.
- But for most of us, it will be the low point of an incredibly exasperating week.
- She loved her sister dearly and always would, but sometimes Staicie had the infuriating knack of being able to effortlessly exasperate a saint.
- Together, they build up a vivid picture of cricket's most exasperating sons.
- Some supporters have grown exasperated by his inconsistent crossing.
- I took many exasperating telephone calls from the press during my time in Downing Street, but one in particular sticks in my mind.
- Though the monk admits to some concern about death by a staged accident, more time behind bars he can contemplate with an equanimity that exasperates authorities.
- Speed bumps definitely do make you slow down, and taxi drivers take sadistic pleasure in exasperating their passengers by coming almost to a halt in front of them.
- After almost thirty years exasperating the Left, he now turned to enraging the Right.
- An unreliable boyfriend at the best of times, Shaun persistently exasperates Liz by insisting they spend all their waking hours in the Winchester Arms, their local boozer.
- Privately, court officials admit they are becoming increasingly exasperated by the very system they serve.
Synonyms infuriate, incense, anger, annoy, irritate, madden, enrage, send into a rage, inflame, antagonize, provoke, irk, vex, gall, pique, try someone's patience, get on someone's nerves, make someone's blood boil, make someone's hackles rise, make someone see red, get someone's back up, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, drive to distraction informal aggravate, drive mad, drive crazy, bug, needle, rile, miff, hack off, get to, get at, get up someone's nose, get under someone's skin, put someone's nose out of joint, get someone's goat, give someone the hump, rattle someone's cage, get someone's dander up British informal nark, wind up, get on someone's wick North American informal tee off, tick off, burn up, rankle, ride, gravel, bum out rare exacerbate, hump, rasp infuriating, annoying, irritating, maddening, antagonizing, provoking, irking, irksome, vexing, vexatious, galling, trying, troublesome, bothersome, displeasing informal aggravating, cussed, pesky, confounded, infernal, plaguy, pestilent
Derivatives adverb I exasperatedly remarked that they were a perfect match, they were both aesthetically hideous with horrifically competitive personalities to match. Example sentencesExamples - The Russians rather exasperatedly denied the story.
- I woke up in the middle of the night with tormentably aching arms and the last threads of a dream in which K had exasperatedly told me to stop blogging.
Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin exasperat- 'irritated to anger', from the verb exasperare (based on asper 'rough'). Definition of exasperate in US English: exasperateverbɪɡˈzæspəˌreɪtiɡˈzaspəˌrāt [with object]Irritate and frustrate (someone) intensely. this futile process exasperates prison officials Example sentencesExamples - I took many exasperating telephone calls from the press during my time in Downing Street, but one in particular sticks in my mind.
- It's always more complicated than that, as annoying people are known to say with exasperating regularity.
- After almost thirty years exasperating the Left, he now turned to enraging the Right.
- His Blair-type zeal took rotation, rotation, rotation to the most exasperating degree.
- Some supporters have grown exasperated by his inconsistent crossing.
- Derrida is so perversely myopic a reader, doggedly pursuing the finest flickers of meaning across a page, that he exasperates some of his opponents with his supersubtlety, not his airy generality.
- If she makes one really good observation but then at another point she exasperates you with her complete failure to at all get what you're trying to tell her, do you dump her or give it another try?
- What reasonable people on both sides of the argument share is a common desire for fairness, but what exasperates many is that tolerance should extend to those who refuse to display any of that quality to their neighbours.
- But for most of us, it will be the low point of an incredibly exasperating week.
- Though the monk admits to some concern about death by a staged accident, more time behind bars he can contemplate with an equanimity that exasperates authorities.
- Privately, court officials admit they are becoming increasingly exasperated by the very system they serve.
- What you have to do with a book, a simple, obvious, exasperating difficult thing, is, read it.
- But speculation that he may quit Britain for America exasperates him.
- In contrast to his vigour and emotional buoyancy later in seeing off the so-called fuel blockade, this dark episode was equally to infuriate, exhaust and exasperate the First Minister.
- He sometimes exasperates his journalistic contacts with a steady stream of press releases crammed with statistics, but it earned him kudos and contacts with the Scottish media that are now paying off.
- An unreliable boyfriend at the best of times, Shaun persistently exasperates Liz by insisting they spend all their waking hours in the Winchester Arms, their local boozer.
- There are no more exasperating things that a neighbour can do than play dance music very loud.
- Speed bumps definitely do make you slow down, and taxi drivers take sadistic pleasure in exasperating their passengers by coming almost to a halt in front of them.
- Together, they build up a vivid picture of cricket's most exasperating sons.
- She loved her sister dearly and always would, but sometimes Staicie had the infuriating knack of being able to effortlessly exasperate a saint.
Synonyms infuriate, incense, anger, annoy, irritate, madden, enrage, send into a rage, inflame, antagonize, provoke, irk, vex, gall, pique, try someone's patience, get on someone's nerves, make someone's blood boil, make someone's hackles rise, make someone see red, get someone's back up, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, drive to distraction infuriating, annoying, irritating, maddening, antagonizing, provoking, irking, irksome, vexing, vexatious, galling, trying, troublesome, bothersome, displeasing
Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin exasperat- ‘irritated to anger’, from the verb exasperare (based on asper ‘rough’). |