annoy
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der.
Proto-Italic *odjom
Latin odium
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Late Latin inodiāre
Old French enoiierbor.
Middle English anoyen
English annoy
From Middle English anoyen, from Old French anoier (“to bother, disturb”), from Late Latin inodiāre (“to make loathsome”), derived from Latin odium (“loathing, hatred”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan, gremman.
Inflected forms:
form: annoys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: annoying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: annoyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: annoyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; / Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, / Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'r enjoys.
You Klaestrons are allies of the Cardassians; your knowledge of the station confirms that they must have given you the layouts. Which not only compromises Bajoran security, but also... annoys us.
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
gloss: To molest; to harm; to injure.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
Synonyms: aggravate
annoy
nettle
rankle
ruffle
sting
antagonize
bother
disgruntle
botherate
bug
get
grate
burn up
bedevil
cheese off
devil
exasperate
frustrate
get up
grotch
hack off
hassle
irk
irritate
jazz
molest
mommick
nark
nerve
pee off
peeve
persecute
pique
piss off
provoke
rile
rile up
roil
storm
test someone's patience
tick off
trouble
try one's patience
vex
wind up
Idioms:
boil someone's piss
chap someone's hide
get on someone's nerves
get on someone's tits
get on someone's wick
get someone's back up
get someone's dander up
get someone's goat
get someone's Irish up
get someone's nanny
get someone's nanny-goat
get under one's goat
get under someone's skin
give someone the shits
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
torque off
Antonyms: comfort
please
soothe
Related words: annoyed
Derived words: annoyable
annoyance
annoybot
annoyed
annoyer
annoyful
annoying
annoyment
annoyous
annoyware
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