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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

causing annoyance or slight anger; causing roughness, redness or inflammation, usually done by a substance;

e.g. My irritating siblings just won't leave me alone.

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Similar Words

Abrasive

Aggravating

Annoying

Blah

Bothersome

Disturbing

Dullish

Eating

Exasperating

Frosting

Frustrating

Galling

Gnarly

Grating

Hellish

Irksome

Maddening

Pesky

Pestiferous

Pestilent

Pestilential

Pleasureless

Prickly

Prosy

Scratchy

Vexatious

Vexing

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Opposite Words

Agreeable

Balmy

Benign

Bland

Blessed

Conciliatory

Congenial

Darling

Deadening

Delectable

Delicate

Delicious

Delightful

Disarming

Dreamy

Dulcet

Felicific

Felicitous

Gentle

Good

Grateful

Gratifying

Heavenly

Ingratiating

Jolly

Light

Luscious

Mellow

Mild

Narcotic

Nonabrasive

Obliging

Pacific

Palatable

Personable

Pleasant

Pleasing

Pleasurable

Pretty

Reassuring

Rejoicing

Satisfying

Savory

Sedative

Silken

Silky

Soothing

Suiting

Sweet

Tasty

Tender

Welcome

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Related Words

Agonizing

Ailing

Alarming

Arid

Arousing

Awkward

Bedeviling

Biting

Boring

Burdensome

Burning

Charged

Colorless

Concerning

Cracking

Disagreeable

Dismaying

Disturbing

Drab

Dreary

Dry

Dull

Dusty

Edgy

Encouraging

Exciting

Excruciating

Grating

Grazing

Harrowing

Harsh

Ho-hum

Humdrum

Importunate

Importune

Inconvenient

Infuriating

Jarring

Jejune

Leaden

Maddening

Mind-numbing

Mischievous

Monochromatic

Monotonous

Moving

Nagging

Numbing

Offensive

Old

Painful

Pedestrian

Peeling

Perturbing

Ponderous

Provocative

Provoking

Riding

Rough

Rousing

Slow

Spiny

Stale

Stimulating

Stirring

Stodgy

Stressful

Stuffy

Stupid

Tame

Taxing

Tedious

Testing

Thorny

Tiresome

Tiring

Troublesome

Troubling

Trying

Undoing

Uninteresting

Unpleasant

Unsavory

Unsettling

Unwelcome

Upsetting

Wearisome

Weary

Wicked

Worrisome

Worrying

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Phrases

• pain in the neck

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