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- Dictionaryexasperated/iɡˈzaspəˌrādəd/
adjective
- 1. intensely irritated and frustrated: "an exasperated expression"
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The meaning of EXASPERATED is having or showing strong feelings of irritation or annoyance. How to use exasperated in a sentence. Exacerbate vs. Exasperate
1. 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.
EXASPERATED definition: 1. annoyed, especially because you can do nothing to solve a problem: 2. annoyed, especially…. Learn more.
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.
Exasperated definition: feeling or expressing extreme annoyance or irritation. See examples of EXASPERATED used in a sentence.
To exasperate is to make something that is already bad even worse, like when sitting in traffic that is sure to make you late, you exasperate the person who is driving by bringing up an unpleasant topic, or the addition of twenty more students that exasperates the crowding in the cafeteria. Definitions of exasperate. verb. make furious.
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. adjective. Botany. rough; covered with hard, projecting points, as a leaf.
Definition of exasperate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
verb (transitive) 1. to cause great irritation or anger to; infuriate. 2. to cause (an unpleasant feeling, condition, etc) to worsen; aggravate. adjective. 3. botany. having a rough prickly surface because of the presence of hard projecting points. Collins English Dictionary.
