annoying

/ə'nɔiiɳ/

Thân thiện

The child's annoying tapping on the table distracted the class.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Causing irritation or annoyance: Describes something that produces a feeling of mild anger, impatience, or displeasure.
2. Noun:
   • The act of troubling or annoying someone: Refers to the action or behavior that causes irritation.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The constant buzzing of the fly was very annoying.
  • He has an annoying habit of interrupting people.
• Noun:
  • His persistent annoying led to a complaint. (This nominal use is less common than the adjective.)

Advanced Usage

• Intensifiers: Often used with adverbs like "particularly," "really," or "extremely" to emphasize the degree of irritation.
  • The software update process is extremely annoying.
• Describing Repetition: Frequently used to characterize persistent, repetitive actions.
  • The annoying beep of the smoke detector battery needs changing.

Variants and Related Words

• Annoy (verb): To cause slight irritation or bother.
  • Loud music late at night can annoy the neighbors.
• Annoyance (noun): The feeling of being irritated, or the source of that feeling.
  • Traffic jams are a major annoyance for commuters.
• Annoyingly (adverb): In a manner that causes annoyance.
  • The answer was annoyingly vague.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Irritating, bothersome, vexing, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, troublesome.
• Noun: Irritation, bother, nuisance, pest.

Related Phrases

• An annoying amount of: Used informally to describe an excessive quantity of something trivial or bothersome.
  • He spent an annoying amount of time talking about the weather.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. causing irritation or annoyance
   • tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork
   • aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport
   • found it galling to have to ask permission
   • an irritating delay
   • nettlesome paperwork
   • a pesky mosquito
   • swarms of pestering gnats
   • a plaguey newfangled safety catch
   • a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him
   • a vexatious child
   • it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong

Noun

1. the act of troubling or annoying someone

Từ đồng nghĩa

• annoyance
• irritation
• vexation