Synonyms ofaggravating

• adjective
• as inannoying
• verb
• as inirritating
• as inworsening
• as inannoying
• as inirritating
• as inworsening
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adjective

• That’s frustrating – to come so close to reaching the summit and miss out by just one space isannoying.
  — Hugh McIntyre,Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
• That can beannoying, but NotebookLM is not—this one actually works.
  — Jennifer Ouellette,ArsTechnica, 2 May 2025

• When handled, these treefrogs secrete a sticky toxin as a defense, which can beirritating to mucous membranes of people or pets who make contact with them.
  — Arricca Elin SanSone,Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2025
• All three ingredients offer significant benefits for skin brightening and skin texture, but also tend to beirritating to people with sensitive skin.
  — Caroline C. Boyle,USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025

• Highly flammable tamarisk shrubs have taken root in thick stands near streams in the western US, and eucalyptus — one of the primary invasive trees blamed forworsening Chile’s recent wildfires as well as fires in Portugal — increases wildfire risk in California.
  — Kylie Mohr,Vox, 8 Jan. 2025
• The United States withdrew its forces from Europe while demanding debt payments from allies, who passed the costs on to Germany,worsening its financial turmoil and hastening its slide into Nazism.
  — Michael Beckley,Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025

• Cleveland head coach Kenny Atkinson spoke about thefrustratingGame 2 loss, revealing a big regret that led to the defeat.
  — Matt Levine,MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
• Technical glitches and changing rules arefrustratingborrowers trying to plan.
  — Shahar Ziv,Forbes.com, 9 May 2025

• Rodin Cars The big idea behind Rodin is to build cars withoutbothering about vehicle regulations – in stark contrast to F1 cars, which are subject to several rules around how they're put together.
  — New Atlas,New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
• The city and state have also been ramping up efforts to engage troubled vagrants sleeping and sometimesbothering straphangers, connecting them with services and shelter and potentially involuntary treatment.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board,New York Daily News, 27 Dec. 2024

• But a decade later, the 38-story structure has become emblematic of Hartford’sdeepening office market troubles.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin,Hartford Courant, 24 Mar. 2025
• Ukraine and its European backers have watched on withdeepening concern over the thawing of relations between Washington and Moscow.
  — Kevin Sabet,Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025

• The lack of caring about my childhood was sodisturbing.
  — Larisha Paul,Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
• Furthermore, there is often an undercurrent of mysticism surrounding the egg, with birth and death at the center—a dualism as true as it is sometimesdisturbing.
  — Irene Coltrinari,Vogue, 25 Apr. 2025