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adjective

ə-ˈnȯid How to pronounce annoyed (audio)
Definition of annoyednext
as in irritated
subjected to and reacting with irritation I was extremely annoyed when she changed her mind for the third time

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verb

past tense of annoy
as in bothered
to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts deliberately annoyed the elderly neighbor by walking across his lawn

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Recent Examples of annoyed
Adjective
The head coach must support him and let all of the easily annoyed assistants know that Hunter will miss meetings to accommodate both tasks. — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2025 So, Old Trafford staff outside the playing team and coaches have every right to feel annoyed that they are being made to pay for the lack of profitability. — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Verb
Local businesspeople and farmers, annoyed by an expensive and unreliable electricity supply and lured by cheap Chinese solar panels, were covering the roofs of homes, factories, and stores with photovoltaic arrays. — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024 But the judge also rules against Jacobson-Moore because she’s annoyed by Matlock being Matlock. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for annoyed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for annoyed
  1. irritated
  2. bothered
  3. exasperated
  4. upset
  5. angry
  6. aggravated
Adjective
  • Key Ingredients: Ginger root, frankincense, grape, walnut Best For: Anyone who has an easily irritated scalp, but doesn’t want to miss out on the suds.
    — Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2025
  • This spot serum is packed with bija seed oil and salicylic acid to target blemishes and calm irritated skin.
    — Maria Correa, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of irritated
Verb
  • With the exception of the Russell 2000, which gained 1%, none of the major indices bothered to get out of bed the day after Christmas.
    — JJ Kinahan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The technology behind an LLM is sufficiently advanced because the people using it have not bothered to understand it.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of bothered
Adjective
  • Lauren handles the allegations as well as can be expected of someone in her position: with increasingly desperate and tearful pleas to Dave to see reason, culminating in exasperated defeat.
    — Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The stiff, exasperated rule-followers voters love to see lose.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of exasperated
Adjective
  • Men’s Pro Singles Recap The venue was rocked by a huge upset on Thursday afternoon, when 16-yr old Floridian No. 40 seed John Lucian Goins shocked the No. 1 seed Ben Johns in the quarters.
    — Todd Boss, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Was this one of those days for an unthinkable upset?
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2025
Definition of upset
Adjective
  • During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, four students must find a way to lead an angry mob to change the course of history.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Accept Your Child's Anger When your child has an angry outburst, acknowledge it.
    — Miriam Foley, Parents, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of angry
Verb
  • However, salt damage incurred in the 1970s due to the installation of a heated concrete slab, which aggravated the salt stored in the 18th and 19th centuries, threatened the church’s structural integrity.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Prior to the game, Mosley said Gary Harris, who missed Friday’s game, re-aggravated his left hamstring strain against the Pistons.
    — Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of aggravated

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