annoy
/əˈnɔɪ
/verb [with object]
1Make (someone) a little angry; irritate: the decision really annoyed him your damned cheerfulness has always annoyed me...
- If someone else is annoying you, and they have no idea what effect they are having on you, then what is the point in staying annoyed with them?
- Clichéd, stereotypical tales of the relative strengths of men and women always annoy me.
- It annoys me that good always seems to prevail over evil in books, movies, TV, and life in general.
Synonyms
irritate, vex, make angry, make cross, anger, exasperate, irk, gall, pique, put out, displease, get/put someone's back up, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles;
enrage, infuriate, madden, make someone's blood boil, drive to distraction, goad, provoke
informal aggravate, peeve, hassle, miff, rile, nettle, needle, get, get to, bug, hack off, get under someone's skin, get in someone's hair, get up someone's nose, put someone's nose out of joint, get someone's goat, give someone the hump, rattle someone's cage, drive mad/crazy, drive round the bend/twist, drive up the wall, make someone see red
British informal wind up, nark, get across, get on someone's wick
North American informal tee off, tick off, burn up, rankle, ride, gravel, bum out
New Zealand informal rark
vulgar slang piss off
British vulgar slang get on someone's tits
informal, dated give someone the pip, get someone's dander up
rare exacerbate, hump, rasp
irritated, cross, angry, vexed, exasperated, irked, piqued, displeased, put out, fed up, disgruntled, in a bad mood, in a temper, testy, in high dudgeon, huffy, in a huff, resentful, aggrieved;
furious, irate, infuriated, incensed, enraged, wrathful, choleric
informal aggravated, peeved, nettled, miffed, miffy, mad, riled, hacked off, peed off, hot under the collar, foaming at the mouth
British informal browned off, cheesed off, brassed off, not best pleased, narked, ratty, shirty, eggy
North American informal teed off, ticked off, sore, bent out of shape
Australian/New Zealand informal snaky, crook
West Indian informal vex
vulgar slang pissed off
North American vulgar slang pissed
literary ireful
archaic snuffy, wrath
2 archaic Harm or attack repeatedly: a gallant Saxon, who annoyed this Coast
Derivatives
annoyer
/ noun ...- We have a enough things to worry about without being tortured by evil lawyers and other professional annoyers!
- With QuickTopic Pro you can also delete entire ranges of messages easily, and you can block the IP addresses of any persistent annoyers.
- Once we get all those annoyers into prison and they start annoying their jailers, what them? Charge them with being annoying, fine them for being so annoying.
Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'be hateful to'): from Old French anoier (verb), anoi (noun), based on Latin in odio in the phrase mihi in odio est 'it is hateful to me'.
Annoy originally has a much stronger sense than the modern one. It came into English from Old French anoier, but was based on Latin in odio, from the phrase mihi in odio est, ‘it is hateful to me’.
Rhymes
- magnificently
- magnificentness
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- magnificent spider
- magnifico
- magnificous
- magnifier
- magnifique
- magnify
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- Chomsky, Noam
- chondral
- Chondrichthyes
- chondriome
- chondrite
- chondritic
- chondro-
- chondrocranium
- chondrocyte
- chondroitin
- chondrule
- Chongjin
- Chongqing
- choo-choo
- choo-choo train