| 单词 | exasperated |
| 释义 | exasperated (once / 1281 pages) adj It’s understandable if you get exasperated, or really frustrated, if you’re standing in the supermarket's express lane and everyone in front of you has way more than the 10-item maximum. Over the centuries, nothing much has happened to the definition of this word — the Latin original means "irritated to anger." Speaking of which, let's get back to the supermarket, a veritable hotbed of exasperated people pushing wobbly-wheeled shopping carts their children try to fill with cartoon-branded junk food, brushing past unstable store displays that come tumbling down, enduring inoffensive but flavorless supermarket music, and emerging into the cold light of day unable to remember where they parked the car. WORD FAMILYexasperated: exasperatedly+/exasperate: exasperated, exasperates, exasperating, exasperation/exasperating: exasperatingly/exasperation: exasperations USAGE EXAMPLES“Some of that was because Clay County was in bad situation before the flood and then exasperated by the flood.” Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) Many Japanese scholars, exasperated by Tokyo’s studied forgetfulness, are joining foreign critics in insisting on the same thing. Time(Dec 26, 2016) Nabokov was exasperated by Wilson’s fondness for Lenin and Russia, which Nabokov detested. Washington Post(Nov 29, 2016) adj greatly annoyed; out of patience had an exasperated look on his face felt exasperated beyond endurance Syn browned off, cheesed off displeased not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure |
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