ABIRRITATING Synonyms

• making worse

• the act of troubling or annoying someone

• causing irritation or annoyance

• causing irritation or annoyance

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• making worse

• a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

• a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

• optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• causing irritation or annoyance

• (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite

• causing physical discomfort

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• causing irritation or annoyance

• easily irritated or annoyed

• causing irritation or annoyance

• exceedingly harmful

• likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

• causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• causing irritation or annoyance

• annoy continually or chronically

• exhaust by attacking repeatedly

• an annoyed or irritated mood

• cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a swarm of insects that attack plants

• any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

• an annoyance

• cause to suffer a blight

• annoy continually or chronically