Vexing

Definitions: Vexing

Vexing

Adjective

1. Extremely annoying or displeasing; "his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating"; "I've had an exasperating day"; "her infuriating indifference"; "the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening".

2. Causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong".

Date "vexing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Vexing

Synonyms: annoying (adj), bothersome (adj), exasperating (adj), galling (adj), infuriating (adj), irritating (adj), maddening (adj), nettlesome (adj), pesky (adj), pestering (adj), pestiferous (adj), plaguey (adj), plaguy (adj), teasing (adj), vexatious (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Vexing

English words defined with "vexing": annoying ♦ bothersome ♦ galling ♦ irritating ♦ mocking ♦ nettlesome ♦ pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy ♦ quizzical ♦ teasing ♦ vexatious, Vexingly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "vexing": Alley ♦ Feast ♦ Lap ♦ Matting ♦ Riding School. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	They were sweet-smelling, coy, cunning, voluptuous, voracious, delicious, pernicious, vexing and sexingthese earth sister rebel mothersthese arousers and carousers. (Designing Women; writing credit: Poul Thomsen)
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Domain	Title
Books	Confronting Regional Challenges: Approaches to Lulus, Growth, and Other Vexing Governance Problems: The Sixth Annual Donald G. Hagman Commemorative (reference) Vexing Nature: On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology (reference) Vexing questions : an urnful of essays in honour of Veikko Rantala on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		One of the most vexing neurological disorders is shingles or herpes zoster, an infection that often causes agonizing pain resistant to treatment. (references)
Economic History	West Bank	One particularly vexing problem is the growing difficulty of conducting trade between the West Bank and Gaza Strip because of Israeli policies. (references)
	Costa Rica	There have been some vexing issues in the U.S.-Costa Rican relationship, principal among them longstanding expropriation and other U.S. citizen investment disputes, which have hurt Costa Rica's investment climate and produced bilateral tensions. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Vexing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Vexing" is used about 18 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	55.56%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	44.44%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

Expression using "vexing": annoying galling chafing irritating nettlesome pesky pestiferous pestilent plaguy plaguey teasing vexatious vexing. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "vexing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		irritues (exasperating, provoking, vexatious), i ndërlikuar (chequered, complicated, convoluted, daedal, daedalian, elaborate, intricate, involute, labyrinthine, sophisticated, tricky), bezdisës (pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguy), çoroditës (baffling). (various references)

Arabic		‏مهاج (excited, irritating), ‏متقاذف (awash), ‏متعب (annoying, arduous, bothersome, burdensome, disturbing, exhaustive, fatiguing, inconvenient, laborious, onerous, strenuous, tired, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, trying, wearisome, weary), ‏مزعج (aggravating, annoying, bore, bothering, bothersome, disagreeable, disquieting, disturber, disturbing, galling, grating, harsh, horrid, importunate, importune, intruder, irksome, irritating, mean, mischievous, offensive, pain in the neck, pestilential, plaguy, provoking, terrible, tiresome, troubled, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, wicked, worrisome), ‏مضايق (annoying, bothersome, disagreeable, disturbing, irksome, irritating, tease, teaser, troublesome, vexatious). (various references)

Bulgarian		колко неприятно (how vexing), колко досадно (how vexing). (various references)

Chinese		使烦恼 (Vex, Vexed). (various references)

French		ennuyant (vexed), contrariant (vexatious). (various references)

German		verzwickt (fiendish, tricky), lästig (aggravating, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, burdensomely, cumbrous, importunate, importunately, incommodious, incommodiously, inconvenient, inconveniently, irksome, irritating, maddening, onerous, onerously, tiresome, troublesome, undesirable, vexatious, worrisome), irritierend (irritating), ärgerlich (aggravating, angrily, angry, annoyed, annoying, cross, exasperating, galling, infuriating, irksomely, irritating, irritatingly, peeved, pesky, resentful, upset, upsetting, vexatious, vexatiously). (various references)

Greek		πείραγμα (quip, rally, spoof), ερεθιστικόσ (exciting, galling, inflammatory, irritant, irritative, provoking, stimulant, vexatious). (various references)

Hebrew		מביך (baffling, confusing, embarrassing, perplexing), ק� טר� י (annoying, catty, provocative, quarrelsome, spiteful, teasing), �"רעמ�" (annoying, fulmination, thundering), ס� יט�" (annoying, mockery, teasing). (various references)

Hungarian		bosszantó (aggravating, annoying, disagreeable, disappointing, exasperating, galling, importunate, invidious, irking, irksome, nettlesome, pesky, pestilent, plaguesome, plaguy, provocative, trying, vexatious). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		焦れったい (impatient, irritating), �"しい (mortifying, regrettable), �"やしい (mortifying, regrettable), 口惜しい (mortifying, regrettable). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くやしい (mortifying, regrettable), くちおしい (mortifying, regrettable), じれったい (impatient, irritating). (various references)

Pig Latin		exingvay

Portuguese		vexatório (nasty language), incómodo (ailment, annoyance, annoying, awkward, bumbling, cumbersome, cumbrous, discomfort, dreadful, heavy-laden, importune, incommodious, inconvenience, inconvertible, intrusive, left-hander, meddler, muff, nagging, nuisance, pesky, plaguy, ragtime, rush, shrill, thorn, tiresome, trouble, troublesome, uncomfortable, unhandy, untoward, unwelcome, vexatious, worrisome), enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotonous, muzzy, pesky, preachy, prolix, prosy, repetitious, soporific, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vapid, wearisome, weary), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgustful, drab, dreary, dull, dullness, ground, horrific, iron, jaded, meddler, morpheme, mumpish, ouzel, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, wearisome, weary, worn out, worried, worrisome). (various references)

Romanian		supãrãtor (annoying, bad, bothersome, disappointing, dreadful, grating, hurtful, importunate, inconvenient, inopportune, intrusively, invidious, irksome, irritating, irritatingly, jumpy, mischief-makering, niggling, obtrusively, painful, provoking, provokingly, tedious, troublesome, unfortunate, unlucky, unwelcome, vexatious), iritant (aggravating, exasperating, galling, irritant, irritating, vexatious). (various references)

Russian		раздражающий (exasperating, grating, irritating, irritative, nerve racking, nerve-racking, provoking, sore). (various references)

Scottish		doimh , doimheadach, bruailleanach, amhaltach, ainid. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uznemirujući (disconcerting, disquieting, disturbing, harassing, upsetting, vexatious). (various references)

Turkish		sinirlendirici (abrasive, aggravating, annoying, irritant, irritating, itching, maddening), kızdırıcı (annoying, irritant, irritating), eziyetli (excruciating, grueling, gruelling, painful, tiring, vexatious), üzücü (afflictive, devouring, distressful, distressing, dolorous, grievous, harrowing, heartbreaking, heavy, painful, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, trying, vexatious, woeful, worrisome, worrying). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vexing": vexingly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vexing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eving, exin, exing, veeving, veig, veign, veing, vexen, vexi, vexin, vexxing, vising, viving, vixin, voxing, vuing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "vexing" (pronounced ve"ksing)
5	-e" k s i ng	annexing, flexing, perplexing.
4	-k s i ng	affixing, boxing, coaxing, faxing, fixing, indexing, intermixing, mixing, relaxing, taxing, waxing, xeroxing.
3	-s i ng	accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, amassing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, fencing, financing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, inducing, influencing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, wincing, wissing, witnessing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-v-x"
	-1 letter: given, vixen.
	-2 letters: gien, give, nevi, nixe, vein, vine.
	-3 letters: eng, gen, gie, gin, nix, veg, vex, vie, vig.
	-4 letters: en, ex, in, ne, xi.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-v-x"
	+2 letters: vexingly.
	+4 letters: excavating, exuviating, overmixing, overtaxing.
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