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adjective
- 1. intensely irritating and frustrating: "they suffered a number of exasperating setbacks"
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EXASPERATING definition: 1. annoying, especially because you can do nothing to solve a problem: 2. annoying, especially…. Learn more.
: causing strong feelings of irritation or annoyance. an exasperating delay. After the most frustrating, aggravating and exasperating two days of his career … Jack Curry. The following days brought light fluky winds and I made only 35 miles of progress in two days. It was very exasperating. Tom Peterson. exasperatingly adverb.
EXASPERATE definition: 1. to make someone very annoyed, usually when they can do nothing to solve a problem 2. to make…. Learn more.
to cause irritation or annoyance to; to excite the anger of : enrage; to make more grievous : aggravate… See the full definition
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.
Exasperate definition: to irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely. See examples of EXASPERATE used in a sentence.
Definition of exasperating adjective 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.
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.
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.
