Thesaurus:annoy
English
Verb
Sense: to cause someone to be upset or displeased
Synonyms
- aggravate [⇒ thesaurus]
- annoy
- rankle
- ruffle
- sting
- antagonize
- bother
- disgruntle
- botherate
- bug
- get
- grate
- burn up
- bedevil
- cheese off (slang)
- devil
- exasperate
- frustrate
- get up
- grotch
- hack off
- hassle
- irk
- irritate
- jazz
- molest
- mommick (US, dialect)
- nark
- pee off (slang)
- peeve
- persecute
- pique
- piss off (vulgar)
- provoke
- rile
- rile up
- roil
- storm [⇒ thesaurus]
- test someone's patience
- tick off [⇒ thesaurus] (Canada, US)
- trouble
- try one's patience
- vex [⇒ thesaurus]
- wind up
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- Idioms:
- boil someone's piss
- chap someone's hide
- get on someone's nerves
- get on someone's tits (vulgar)
- get on someone's wick
- get someone's back up
- get someone's dander up
- get someone's goat
- get someone's Irish up (racist)
- get someone's nanny
- get someone's nanny-goat
- get under one's goat
- give someone the shits (Australia, colloquial, vulgar)
- grind one's gears
- harsh one's mellow
- put someone's back up
- raise someone's hackles
- rub someone the wrong way
- rub up the wrong way
- ruffle someone's feathers
- tee off (slang)
- torque off (chiefly US)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- ruffle some feathers (of a situation)
- pester [⇒ thesaurus]
Coordinate terms
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- “830. painfulness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “annoy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.