Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Feeling or showing signs of stress, worry, or annoyance due to persistent demands, pressures, or petty irritations: Describes a state of being troubled, pestered, or bothered over time.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The harassed working mother had no time for herself.
  • He had a harassed expression after dealing with the constant complaints.
  • The manager looked harassed by the endless stream of emails.

Advanced Usage

• "to feel harassed": to experience a state of being persistently troubled or annoyed.
  • She felt harassed by the daily commute and her demanding job.
• "to look harassed": to have an appearance that shows stress or annoyance.
  • The teacher looked harassed after supervising the school trip.

Variants and Related Words

• Harass (verb): to subject someone to aggressive pressure or intimidation; to trouble or annoy persistently.
  • The company has a strict policy against employees who harass their colleagues.
• Harassment (noun): aggressive pressure or intimidation; the act of harassing someone.
  • She reported the harassment to the human resources department.

Synonyms

• Harried: feeling strained as a result of having too many demands made on one.
• Vexed: annoyed, frustrated, or worried.
• Pestered: troubled or annoyed persistently.
• Bothered: concerned or troubled.

Related Phrases

• "Harassed into doing something": pressured or pestered until one agrees to do something.
  • He was harassed into signing the contract before he was ready.

Adjective

1. troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
   • harassed working mothers
   • a harried expression
   • her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions
   • the vexed parents of an unruly teenager