annoying

annoying
adj
1. bothersome, pestering, Inf. pesky, Inf. pestiferous, vexatious; troublesome, troubling, thorny, fretful, worrisome, worrying, Dial. plaguy; hectoring, harassing, hounding, dogging, nagging, tormenting.
2. nettlesome, nettling, irritating, Inf. aggravating, Inf. in one's hair; disturbing, perturbing, ruffling, disquieting, vexing.
3. unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful; invidious, hateful, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, execrable; intolerable, unbearable, too much, Inf. a bit much.
4. angering, incensing, irksome, irking; maddening, infuriating, enraging; exacerbating, rankling, galling, embittering.

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