vexed
vexed
adj \ˈvekst\Definition of VEXED
: debated or discussed at length <a vexed question>
Examples of VEXED
- She was feeling somewhat vexed.
- <my dog was clearly vexed with me for having been gone all week, and hardly greeted me when I came home>
First Known Use of VEXED
1657
Related to VEXED
Related Words: displeased, distressed, disturbed, perturbed, troubled, upset; angered, angry, indignant, inflamed (also enflamed), infuriated, irate, ireful, mad, outraged, rankled, riled, roiled, shirty [chiefly British], sore, steaming; bristly, cross, disapproving, huffy, piqued, resentful; bearish, bilious, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabby, cranky, dyspeptic, fretful, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, peevish, petulant, snappish, snuffy, testy, touchy; badgered, bedeviled, frustrated, haggled, harassed, harried, hassled, inconvenienced, persecuted, pestered, pinpricked, plagued, provoked, tested, tormented, tortured, tried
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