irritating

irritating
adj
1. provoking, agitating, inflaming, inflammatory, enflaming, kindling; inciting, igniting, instigating.
2. angering, incensing, irksome, irking; maddening, infuriating, enraging; exacerbating, rankling, galling, embittering.
3. nettlesome, nettling, irritative, irritant, Inf. aggravating, Inf. in one's hair; disturbing, ruffling, disquieting.
4. annoying, bothersome, pestering, Inf. pesky, Inf. pestiferous, vexatious, vexing; troublesome, troubling, thorny, fretful, worrisome, worrying, Archaic except Dial. plaguy; hectoring, harassing, hounding, dogging, nagging, tormenting.

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