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Annoyed

Definition: Annoyed

Annoyed

Adjective

1. Aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay".

2. Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "annoyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

 

Synonyms: Annoyed

Synonyms: harassed (adj), harried (adj), irritated (adj), miffed (adj), nettled (adj), peeved (adj), pestered (adj), pissed (adj), riled (adj), roiled (adj), steamed (adj), stung (adj), vexed (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Annoyed

English words defined with "annoyed": annoyance, annoyingbecome, bothersome, bureaucratic, bureaucraticallycrankydispleasureexasperatedfractiousgalling, get, gointerpretation, interpreting, irritable, irritating, irritationmiffnettlesomepeckish, peeve, peevish, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pettish, petulant, plaguey, plaguyrendering, renditionshirty, snorty, Spleenedteasing, techy, testy, tetchyvexation, vexatious, vexingwalk away, walk off. (references)
Specialty definitions using "annoyed": AchorBack and Edge, Boof Boof, BriseisCharity, CorkFightGeese, Grumbo, Gunhacked off, Handcuffs, Hock-daymuddieNewspaper ReporterPestShot, spam bait, Squinting, Stimulants of Great MenTicks. (references)

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Modern Usage: Annoyed

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Almost means, thanks to the Tick, she went home annoyed at 10pm (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond)

Lyrics

Oh boy we 'bout to make a lot of people annoyed (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Annoyed

DomainTitle

Music

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Image Slideshow: Annoyed

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Digital Photo Gallery: Annoyed
 

"Snowy Gargoyle" by Paige Foster
Commentary: "A little gargoyle that I keep with the container garden on my balcony. I thought he looked rather annoyed with the snow. <g>."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Annoyed".

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Annoyed monkey screaming.
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Use in Literature: Annoyed

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

The Professor looked annoyed, and shut up his notebook again

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

It annoyed him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Annoyed

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Cefarm Warsaw, for instance, is creating a new image for its chain of 60 pharmacies with a new name “Apteka 2000” (Pharmacy 2000). Retail pharmacists rely on pharmaceutical companies to keep them informed about new drugs, and, although they are becoming annoyed at the ever-increasing number of medical representatives visiting them, they depend on them for information. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Annoyed

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Adams

1797-1801Our sea coasts, from their great extent, are more easily annoyed and more easily defended by a naval force than any other.

James Monroe

1817-1825This enterprise has been marked in a more signal manner by all the objectionable circumstances which characterized the other, and more particularly by the equipment of privateers which have annoyed our commerce, and by smuggling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Annoyed

"Annoyed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 39.61% of the time. "Annoyed" is used about 721 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)39.61%28617,222
Adjective (general or positive)30.06%21720,530
Lexical Verb (past tense)28.95%20921,011
Noun (proper)1.39%10111,207
                    Total100.00%721N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Annoyed

Expressions using "annoyed": be annoyed become annoyed get annoyed. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "annoyed": half-annoyed.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Annoyed

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

annoyed

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annoyed i m

3
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Modern Translation: Annoyed

Language Translations for "annoyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i mërzitur (blue, bored, creepy, disgruntled, dissatisfied, down-hearted, fed up, gloomily, gloomy, long-spun, moldy, monotone, monotonous, mouldy, pained), i inatosur (angry, crusty, enraged, mad, rambunctious, rampageous). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏منزعج (disturbed, irritated, upset), ‏متكدر (vexed), ‏متضايق (uncomfortable, uneasy). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

раздразнен (disgruntled, excited, ill-humored, ill-humoured, peeved, raspy, roily, rusty, snuffy, teed off). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

窩囊 (pointless; asinine), 懊惱 (upset, vexed), 懊恼 (Annoy, Annoying). (various references)

   

Czech

  

otrávený (bored, cheesed-off, envenomed, fed up, frustrated, peeved, poisoned, poisonous), nazlobený, naštvaný (fed up). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vihainen (angered, angry, mad), suuttunut (angry, mad). (various references)

   

French

  

agacé, mécontent, irrité, fâché (angry), ennuyai, ennuyés, ennuyé, ennuyâmes, ennuya, dérangé, contrarié, énervé. (various references)

   

German

  

verärgert (angrily, angry, crossly, disgruntles, peeved, piqued, shirty, sore, vexed), ärgerte (chagrined, exasperated, huffed, irked, riled, vexed). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ενοχλημένος για (annoyed about). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ממורר (embittered), מרוגז (angry, irate), זח (vexed), נרגז (angry, enraged, irritable). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mérges (angry, be angry, cross, fretful, furious, poisonous, ratty, savage, stroppy, stuffy, surly, to be choked, to be in a bad temper, to be miffed, venenous, wrathful), bosszús (angry, fretful, harassed, pettish, resentful, to be choked). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

anyal (pervish, resentful), pegal (fed up, painful, stiff, weariness, weary), menjengkelkan (aggravate, annoy, exasperate, irksome), kesal (cross, dejected, fed up, peevish, piqued), keki (ill at ease, irritated, resentful), jengkel (peevish). (various references)

   

Italian

  

stizzito (angry, fretful, irritating), seccato (bothered, fed up, sore), irritato (hackles up, worked up), infastidito. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

煩がる (to feel annoyed at), 煩さがる (to feel annoyed at), 大弱り (very much annoyed), 仕方無い (be annoyed, be impatient, can't stand it, it can't be helped, it's inevitable, it's no use), 仕方が無い (being annoyed, being impatient, can't stand it, it can't be helped, it's inevitable, it's no use), 仕方がない (being annoyed, being impatient, can't stand it, it can't be helped, it's inevitable, it's no use), 仕方ない (be annoyed, be impatient, can't stand it, it can't be helped, it's inevitable, it's no use), 仕方の無い (be annoyed, be impatient, can't stand it, it can't be helped, it's inevitable, it's no use), 仕方のない (be annoyed, be impatient, can't stand it, it can't be helped, it's inevitable, it's no use), 参る (to be annoyed, to be defeated, to be madly in love, to be nonplussed, to call, to collapse, to come, to die, to go, to visit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おおよわり (very much annoyed), しかたがない (being annoyed, being impatient, can't stand it, it can't be helped, it's inevitable, it's no use), しかたない (be annoyed, be impatient, can't stand it, it can't be helped, it's inevitable, it's no use), しかたのない (be annoyed, be impatient, can't stand it, it can't be helped, it's inevitable, it's no use), まいる (to be annoyed, to be defeated, to be madly in love, to be nonplussed, to call, to collapse, to come, to die, to go, to visit), うるさがる (to feel annoyed at). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

괴롭히는 (Afflicted, Ailed, Badgered, bugged, Distressed, Plagued). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sneeuit (piqued, spun), jymmoosit, fargit, currit ass (cancelled, deprived), corree (anger, angry, ire), anveaghit (disturbed, perplexed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

annoyeday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

aborrecido (beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, drab, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, horrid, irksome, jaded, meddler, morose, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried, worrisome), molestado. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

contrariat (upset, vexed). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

раздраженный (angry, cranky, cross, disgruntled, hot, on edge, peeved, shirty, warm). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uzbuđen (agog, astir, excited, overwrought, wrought up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

irritado (irked, irritated, spleenful, testy), fastidiado (importuned, irked, ruined), enojoso (aggravating, angry, annoying, fretful, irritating), curcuncho (hunchbacked), contrariado (disgruntled). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förargad (shirty, vexed). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ที่รำคาญ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sinirlenmiş, rahatsız olmuş, kızgın (angry, angry with, ardent, baking, black, boiling, cross, dyspeptic, fervent, fierce, fiery, flaming, frowning, furious, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, huffy, in a glow, in a pet, in a tiff, incensed, indignant, indignantly, inflamed, irate, ireful, mad, pissed off, red-hot, snappish, sore, vexed, wild, wroth). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

hyrsyсy diюlemek (be annoyed, vexed). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розсерджений, роздратований (aggravated, angry, bad tempered, disgruntled, edgy, exasperated, huffy, irritated, nasty, peeved, querulous, shirty, vexed), невдоволений (acidulated, acidulous, discontented, disgruntled, malcontent, non-content, sorehead). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

khó chịu (accursed, accurst, beastly, colour, devil, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, incommodious, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, obtrusive, plaguesome, queer, tiresome, unacceptable, unpleasant, unpleasing, vile, vinegar), bực mình bị quấy rầy, bị trái ý, bị phiền hà. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Annoyed

LanguageDateSource2 Corinthians Chapter 4, Verse 8
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintEn panti qlibomenoi all ou stenocwroumenoi aporoumenoi all ouk exaporoumenoi
Latin405VulgateIn omnibus tribulationem patimur sed non angustiamur aporiamur sed non destituimur
Middle English1395WyclifIn alle thingis we suffren tribulacioun, but we ben not angwischid, or annoyed; we ben maad pore, but `we lacken nothing; we suffren persecucioun,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleWe are troubled on every side yet are we not with out shyft. We are in povertie: but not vtterly without somwhat.
Jacobean English1611King JamesWe are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Victorian English1833WebsterWe are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Basic English1964OgdenTroubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Annoyed

Language2 Corinthians Chapter 4, Verse 8
Cebuano&para; Kami ginasakit sa tanang paagi, apan wala manghiubos; nangalibog, apan wala kawad-i sa paglaum;
CroatianU svemu pritisnuti, ali ne pritiješnjeni; dvoumeæi, ali ne zdvajajuæi;
Danishvi, som trænges på alle Måder, men ikke stænges inde, ere tvivlrådige, men ikke fortvivlede,
DutchAls die in alles verdrukt worden, doch niet benauwd; twijfelmoedig, doch niet mismoedig;
FinnishMe olemme kaikin tavoin ahdingossa, mutta emme umpikujassa, neuvottomat, mutta emme toivottomat,
FrenchNous sommes pressés de toute manière, mais non réduits à l`extrémité; dans la détresse, mais non dans le désespoir;
GermanWir haben allenthalben Trübsal, aber wir ängsten uns nicht; uns ist bange, aber wir verzagen nicht;
Haitian Creole¶ Mwen jwenn tout kalite fikilte; men, mwen pa janm kwense nèt. Mwen konn rive nan sitiyasyon mwen pa konn ni sa pou m' fè, ni sa pou m' di. Men, mwen pa janm pèdi espwa.
HungarianMindenütt nyomorgattatunk, de meg nem szoríttatunk; kétségeskedünk, de nem esünk kétségbe;
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKami diserang dari segala pihak, namun kami tidak terjepit. Kami kebingungan, tetapi tidak sampai putus asa.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka kami disesakkan di dalam segala sesuatu, tetapi tiada terapit; kami bimbang hati, tetapi tiada putus harap;
ItalianSiamo infatti tribolati da ogni parte, ma non schiacciati; siamo sconvolti, ma non disperati;
LatvianNo visurienes mçs cieðam apspieðanu, bet neesam nomâkti; esam trûkumâ, bet neesam izmisuði.
Maori¶ E akina ana matou i nga taha katoa, heoi kahore e pau te whakaaro; e raruraru ana, heoi kahore e ngakaukore;
Norwegianidet vi alltid er i trengsel, men ikke kuet, tvilende, men ikke mistvilende,
PortugueseEm tudo somos atribulados, mas não angustiados; perplexos, mas não desesperados;   
RumanianSkntem kncolyiyi kn toate chipurile, dar nu la strkmtoare; kn grea cumpqnq, dar nu desnqdqjduiyi;
RussianнЩ ПФПЧУАДХ РТЙФЕУОСЕНЩ, ОП ОЕ УФЕУОЕОЩ; НЩ Ч ПФЮБСООЩИ ПВУФПСФЕМШУФЧБИ, ОП ОЕ ПФЮБЙЧБЕНУС;
Shuar¶ Tuma asamtai ii itiurchatri árentmaku árinin tuke jiinkimniaitji. "Itiurkatjik" taji, Túrasha Yus Yáinmaji.
SpanishEstamos atribulados en todo, pero no angustiados; perplejos, pero no desesperados;
SwahiliDaima twapata taabu, lakini hatugandamizwi; twapata mashaka, lakini hatukati tamaa;
SwedishVi äro på allt sätt i trångmål, dock icke utan utväg; vi äro rådvilla, dock icke rådlösa;
Uma¶ Ngki'ii ngka'ana narumpa' -kai kaparia, aga uma-kai te'upi'. Pontu-na tuhu-mi nono-kai, aga uma mere' nono-kai.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Annoyed

Misspellings

"Annoyed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: annoied, annoped, annoted, annoya, anoyed, Nanuoya. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Annoyed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: anodyne.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-n-o-y"

-1 letter: anyone, noyade.

-2 letters: annoy, anode, donna, donne, doyen.

-3 letters: aeon, anon, dean, deny, dona, done, dyne, neon, node, nona, none, odea, yean, yond.

-4 letters: ado, and, ane, any, aye, day, den, dey, doe, don, dye, end, eon, nae, nan, nay, nod, ode, one, yea, yen, yod, yon.

-5 letters: ad, ae, an, ay, de, do, ed.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-n-o-y"
 

+1 letter: anodynes.

 

+2 letters: androgyne, asyndeton, nonsteady.

 

+3 letters: androgynes, asyndetons.

 

+4 letters: androgynies, handyperson.

 

+5 letters: condemnatory, denunciatory, handypersons, inordinately, oleandomycin, openhandedly, predominancy, unhandsomely, unoxygenated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Bible Trace
17. Derivations
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

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