annoy
verb /əˈnɔɪ/
/əˈnɔɪ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they annoy | /əˈnɔɪ/ /əˈnɔɪ/ |
| he / she / it annoys | /əˈnɔɪz/ /əˈnɔɪz/ |
| past simple annoyed | /əˈnɔɪd/ /əˈnɔɪd/ |
| past participle annoyed | /əˈnɔɪd/ /əˈnɔɪd/ |
| -ing form annoying | /əˈnɔɪɪŋ/ /əˈnɔɪɪŋ/ |
- to make somebody slightly angry synonym irritate
- annoy somebody His constant joking was beginning to annoy her.
- I’m sure she does it just to annoy me.
- I only stay out late to annoy my parents.
- it annoys somebody when… It really annoys me when people forget to say thank you.
- it annoys somebody to do something It annoys me to see him getting ahead of me.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- intensely
- really
- be beginning to
- be starting to
- do something just to annoy somebody
- do something only to annoy somebody
- annoy somebody to make somebody uncomfortable or unable to relax synonym bother
- He swatted a fly that was annoying him.
- The wasps were beginning to annoy me.
Word OriginMiddle 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’.