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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.
To exasperate someone is to annoy him or her to the point of impatience, frustration and irritation, like when you exasperate a busy waiter by asking questions like "what are all the ingredients in the salad dressing?" and making him repeat the specials five times.
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. adjective. Botany. rough; covered with hard, projecting points, as a leaf.
Definition of exasperating adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to make someone very annoyed, usually when they can do nothing to solve a problem. Synonym. infuriate. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to annoy someone. annoy It annoys me that you're always late. bother It bothers me that you don't help with the dishes. irritate After a while her behavior really began to irritate me.
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.
If you describe someone or something as exasperating, you mean that you feel angry or frustrated by them or by what they do. Hardie could be exasperating to his colleagues. [+ to] She really is the most exasperating woman. Synonyms: irritating, provoking, annoying, infuriating More Synonyms of exasperating.
