annoyverb [ T ]
uk/əˈnɔɪ/us/əˈnɔɪ/B1 to make someone angry:
Tina really annoyed me in the meeting this morning.
I'm sorry - is my cough annoying you?
[ + that ] It annoys me that she just expects us to help.
It really annoys me when people expect me to tip as well as pay a service charge in a restaurant.
More examples
- I'm sure he says these things deliberately to annoy you.
- It really annoys me when people push in front of me like that.
- They were afraid to complain about the noise in case they annoyed the neighbours.
- The film portrayed the artist as a complete drunk, which has annoyed a lot of people.
- After a while her coughing really began to annoy me.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing feelings of anger and displeasure
- aggravate
- aggrieve
- alienate
- anger
- annoyance
- burn
- go too far idiom
- goat
- grate
- hack
- hack sb off
- harass
- nose
- ruffle sb's feathers idiom
- set sb's teeth on edge idiom
- step/tread on sb's toes idiom
- stick in sb's craw idiom
- stick in sb's throat idiom
- tee
- toe
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