plaguey

Thân thiện

The child's plaguey habit of tapping his fork on the glass annoyed everyone at the table.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Causing irritation or annoyance: Used to describe something that is bothersome, troublesome, or persistently annoying.
   • Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease: Describing something that is pestilential or associated with plague.

2. Adverb:

   • In a disagreeable manner: Used informally to intensify an adjective, meaning very or exceedingly in an unpleasant way.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (annoying):
  • The plaguey noise from the construction site made it impossible to concentrate.
  • He has a plaguey habit of interrupting people.
• Adjective (disease-related):
  • The doctors were concerned about the plaguey symptoms spreading through the village.
• Adverb:
  • The door is plaguey stiff and hard to open.
  • She found the instructions plaguey confusing.

Advanced Usage

• Often used in informal or slightly archaic contexts to express strong, frustrated annoyance.
• As an adverb, it is an informal intensifier similar to "confoundedly" or "deucedly."

Variants and Related Words

• Plaguy: An alternative spelling with the same meanings.
• Plague (n.): The main noun form, referring to a contagious disease or a widespread nuisance.
• Plaguesome (adj.): A less common synonym meaning troublesome or annoying.

Synonyms

• Annoying, bothersome, irritating, pesky, vexatious, pestilential (for the disease-related sense).

Related Idioms

• Avoid like the plague: To stay far away from someone or something. (This idiom uses the noun "plague," not the adjective "plaguey").
  • I avoid that topic in conversation like the plague.

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
2. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
   • a pestilential malignancy in the air- Jonathan Swift
   • plaguey fevers

Adverb

1. in a disagreeable manner
   • it's so plaguey cold!

Từ đồng nghĩa

• pestilent
• pestilential
• pestiferous
• plaguy
• plaguily