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English
Etymology
annoy + -ing
Pronunciation
Adjective
annoying (comparative more annoying, superlative most annoying)
- Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
Having flies in your bedroom when you're trying to sleep is really annoying.
Derived terms
Translations
causing irritation or annoyance
- Bikol Central: makaurag
- Catalan: molest (ca) m
- Dutch: vervelend (nl), irritant (nl), storend (nl)
- East Central German: aarchrlich
- Esperanto: ĝena
- German: verwirrend (de), irritierend (de), lästig (de)
- Greek: ενοχλητικός (el) (enochlitikós)
- Hebrew: מעצבן (he)
- Interlingua: moleste
- Italian: pesante (it), seccante (it), scocciante (it), fastidioso (it), inopportuno (it), irritante (it)
- Japanese: 煩い (ja) (うるさい, urusai)
- Korean: 성가시다 (ko) (seonggasida), 귀찮다 (ko) (gwichanta)
- Ladino: fastidiozo
- Latin: molestus
- Macedonian: до́саден (dósaden)
- Middle English: diseseful, anoiful, irkesom
- Polish: irytujący (pl)
- Romanian: enervant (ro), supărător (ro) m or n
- Spanish: molesto (es), fastidioso (es)
- Turkish: can sıkıcı (tr), gıcık (tr) (informal), sinir (tr) (informal), kıl (tr) (person - informal)
- Vietnamese: phiền (vi) (煩)
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Verb
annoying
- present participle and gerund of annoy
Synonyms
Translations
causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious
- Arabic: مُزْعِج (muzʕij)
- Belarusian: раздражня́льны (razdražnjálʹny), абры́длівы (abrýdlivy), даса́дны (dasádny)
- Bulgarian: досаден (bg) m (dosaden)
- Catalan: enutjós, enfadós, fastijós, molest (ca)
- Cebuano: samok
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 討厭／讨厌 (zh) (tǎoyàn), 煩人／烦人 (zh) (fánrén)
- Czech: otravný (cs) m
- Danish: irriterende
- Dutch: vervelend (nl), ergerlijk (nl)
- Esperanto: agaca
- Finnish: ärsyttävä (fi), närkästyttävä (fi)
- French: agaçant (fr), irritant (fr), énervant (fr), ennuyeux (fr), ennuyant (fr)
- Georgian: აბეზარი (ka) (abezari)
- German: ärgerlich (de), lästig (de), leidig (de), verdrießlich (de)
- Icelandic: truflandi
- Irish: bearránach
- Italian: fastidioso (it)
- Japanese: うるさい (ja) (urusai), 迷惑 (ja) (めいわく, meiwaku), 面倒 (ja) (めんどう, mendō)
- Kapampangan: makakulami
- Korean: 짜증스럽다 (ko) (jjajeungseureopda)
- Latin: molestus
- Macedonian: до́саден (dósaden)
- Norman: embêtant
- Norwegian: irriterende (no), plagsom (no), brysom (no), enerverende
- Bokmål: sjenerende
- Polish: irytujący (pl), drażliwy (pl), upierdliwy (pl) m
- Portuguese: irritante (pt), chato (pt)
- Romanian: enervant (ro)
- Russian: доса́дный (ru) (dosádnyj), надое́дливый (ru) (nadojédlivyj), раздража́ющий (ru) (razdražájuščij), назо́йливый (ru) (nazójlivyj), доку́чливый (ru) (dokúčlivyj)
- Sicilian: siccanti, camurriusu, camuriusu
- Spanish: molesto (es), embarazoso (es), fastidioso (es), cargante (es), engorroso (es), enfadoso (es)
- Swedish: irriterande (sv), dryg (sv) (youthful), förarglig (sv)
- Tagalog: nakaaasar, nakaiinis, nakauurat
- Thai: น่ารำคาญ (nâa-ram-kaan)
- Turkish: can sıkıcı (tr), sinir bozucu, sinirlendirici (tr), rahatsız edici
- Ukrainian: дратівли́вий (drativlývyj), доса́дний (dosádnyj), набридливи́й (nabrydlyvýj)
- Welsh: plagus
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Noun
annoying (plural annoyings)
- (rare) That which annoys; an annoyance.
1865, William Buell Sprague, Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit:[…] they lose the true spirit of Christianity; and, while their heads are filled with clouds of mysticism, and the smoke of metaphysical nonsense, their hearts are filled with uncharitableness and bitter annoyings.
References
- “annoying”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “annoying”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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