maddening

/'mædniɳ/

Thân thiện

The ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Causing extreme annoyance, frustration, or anger: Describes something that is intensely irritating or infuriating, often to the point of feeling overwhelming or unbearable.

Usage

The adjective "maddening" is used to describe situations, behaviors, sounds, or qualities that provoke a strong feeling of irritation or anger. It emphasizes a sense of being driven to frustration.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The maddening noise from the construction site made it impossible to concentrate.
  • Her maddening habit of interrupting people is very rude.
  • We were stuck in maddening traffic for over two hours.

Advanced Usage

• "to be maddening": to have the quality of causing extreme annoyance.
  • The inconsistency of the rules is absolutely maddening.
• "maddening + noun": a common structure to describe the source of frustration.
  • He faced a maddening series of bureaucratic delays.

Variants and Related Words

• Madden (verb): To make someone extremely angry or annoyed.
  • The constant delays began to madden the passengers.
• Maddeningly (adverb): In an extremely annoying or frustrating manner.
  • The solution was maddeningly simple once we found it.

Synonyms

• Exasperating: Intensely irritating.
• Infuriating: Making one extremely angry.
• Aggravating: Making a problem or situation worse or more serious; annoying.
• Galling: Causing annoyance or resentment.

Antonyms

• Soothing: Having a calming or relieving effect.
• Pleasing: Giving a sense of enjoyment or satisfaction.
• Delightful: Causing great pleasure.

Idioms and Phrases

• A maddening pace: An extremely fast and frustrating speed.
  • The project progressed at a maddening pace, leaving no time for review.
• Maddening complexity: An overwhelmingly intricate and frustrating level of detail.
  • The instructions were of maddening complexity.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. extremely annoying or displeasing
   • his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating
   • I've had an exasperating day
   • her infuriating indifference
   • the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening

Từ đồng nghĩa

• exasperating
• infuriating
• vexing