plaguy

/'pleigi/

Thân thiện

The child's plaguy habit of tapping his fork on the glass annoyed the other diners.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Causing irritation or annoyance: Describes something that is bothersome, troublesome, or vexing.

2. Adverb:

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

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:

  • The plaguy noise from the construction site made it impossible to concentrate.
  • He had to deal with a plaguy problem that just wouldn't go away.

• Adverb:

  • The weather turned plaguy cold almost overnight.
  • She found the task plaguy difficult to complete.

Advanced Usage

• As an intensifier (adverb): Often used in older or more literary contexts to add strong emphasis, similar to "deucedly" or "confoundedly."
  • This is a plaguy inconvenient time for a visit.

Variants and Related Words

• Plaguey (adj/adv): An alternative spelling with the same meaning.
  • A plaguey nuisance.
• Plague (n/v): The root word, meaning a contagious disease, a calamity, or to pester or harass.
• Plaguer (n, archaic): One who plagues or annoys.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Annoying, bothersome, irritating, vexing, pesky, nettlesome, galling, troublesome.
• Adverb: Extremely, exceedingly, deucedly, confoundedly, terribly, awfully.

Related Idioms

• None directly formed with "plaguy": The word itself is often used in an idiomatic way as an intensifier, especially in older English. A related concept is "to plague someone," meaning to pester or torment them.
  • Stop plaguing me with questions!

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

Adverb

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• plaguey
• plaguily