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chafing

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of chafing

causing annoyance

learned to ignore those chafing comments that his mother-in-law was constantly making

Synonyms of chafing

abrasive, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, carking, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, irksome, irritating, maddening, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pesty, plaguey (also plaguy), rankling, rebarbative, riling, vexatious, vexing

Words Related to chafing

burdensome, discomforting, displeasing, disquieting, distressing, importunate, importune, inconveniencing

angering, enraging, infuriating

brattish, bratty, mischievous, offensive, troublesome, upsetting

distractive, painful, stressful, tiresome, troubling, trying, worrisome

biting, grating, jangling, jarring, spiny, thorny

Near Antonyms of chafing

delightful, pleasing

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