Thesaurus:annoy
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
Sense: to cause someone to be upset or displeased[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- aggravate [⇒ thesaurus]
- annoy
- antagonize
- badger
- bother
- bug
- bedevil
- devil
- exasperate
- get up
- grotch
- hack off
- harass
- hassle
- infuriate
- irk
- irritate
- jazz
- nark
- peeve
- persecute
- pester
- pique
- piss off (vulgar)
- provoke
- rile
- storm [⇒ thesaurus]
- tick off [⇒ thesaurus] (Canada, US)
- trouble
- try one's patience
- vex
- wind up
- —
- Idioms:
- boil someone's piss
- chap someone's hide
- get on someone's nerves
- get on someone's tits (vulgar)
- get on someone's wick
- get someone's back up
- get someone's dander up
- get someone's goat
- get someone's Irish up (racist)
- give someone the shits (Australia, colloquial, vulgar)
- grind one's gears
- harsh one's mellow
- pee off (slang)
- put someone's back up
- raise someone's hackles
- rub the wrong way
- ruffle some feathers
- ruffle someone's feathers
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Further reading[edit]
- “830. painfulness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “annoy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.