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- Dictionaryex·as·per·at·ing/iɡˈzaspəˌrādiNG/
adjective
- 1. intensely irritating and frustrating: "they suffered a number of exasperating setbacks"
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The meaning of EXASPERATING is causing strong feelings of irritation or annoyance. How to use exasperating in a sentence.
EXASPERATING definition: 1. annoying, especially because you can do nothing to solve a problem: 2. annoying, especially…. Learn more.
a. : to cause irritation or annoyance to. It's a conundrum for any playwright: How do you enliven characters who alternately bore and exasperate each other? Michael Phillips. It's a demanding dining experience that may exhaust and exasperate some customers … Thomas Matthews.
Something that's exasperating is frustrating or irritating. Your exasperating roommate might talk loudly on the phone late into the night and then wake up early to make his breakfast and leave your sink full of dirty dishes.
to cause anger or extreme annoyance in someone: His assistant’s carelessness is exasperating him. (Definition of exasperate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of exasperate. exasperate. He had certainly never felt more humiliated and exasperated. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
to irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely: He was exasperated by the senseless delays. Synonyms: infuriate, inflame, vex, anger, provoke, incense. Archaic. to increase the intensity or violence of (disease, pain, feelings, etc.). Synonyms: exacerbate.
Definition of exasperating adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. to cause great irritation or anger to; infuriate. 2. to cause (an unpleasant feeling, condition, etc) to worsen; aggravate.
1. To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly. 2. To increase the gravity or intensity of: "a scene ... that exasperates his rose fever and makes him sneeze" (Samuel Beckett). [Latin exasperāre, exasperāt- : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + asperāre, to make rough (from asper, rough ).] ex·as′per·at′ed·ly adv. ex·as′per·at′er n.
annoying, especially because you can do nothing to solve a problem: It's so exasperating when he won't listen to a word that I say. Synonyms. infuriating. maddening. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Annoying. accursed. aggravating. annoyingly. ball-ache. frustratingly. gadfly. gallingly. gratingly. irritatingly. limit. maddening. mither
