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vexed
Synonyms and Antonyms of vexed
- my dog was clearly vexed with me for having been gone all week, and hardly greeted me when I came home
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
Synonyms and Antonyms of vexed
- my coworkers' loud, endless conversations vexed me
aggravated, annoyed, ate, bothered, bugged, burned (up) (or burnt (up)), chafed, exasperated, frosted, galled, got, grated, griped, hacked (off), irked, irritated, itched, narked [British], nettled, peeved, persecuted, piqued, put out, rasped, riled, ruffled, spited
inflamed (also enflamed), provoked, roused
badgered, baited, bullyragged (also ballyragged), deviled (or devilled), hagrode, harassed, harried, pestered, plagued, teased
angered, antagonized, enraged, incensed, infuriated, maddened, rankled, roiled
agitated, discomforted, discomposed, disquieted, distressed, exercised, freaked (out), fretted, perturbed, undid, unhinged, unsettled, upset, worried
- a mystery novel that is sure to vex even the canniest readers
abashed, discomfited, disconcerted, discountenanced, embarrassed, fazed, flustered, mortified, nonplussed (also nonplused), rattled
agitated, bothered, chagrined, discomforted, discomposed, dismayed, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, perturbed, stunned, unhinged, unsettled, upset
beguiled, cozened, deceived, deluded, duped, fooled, gulled, hoaxed, hoodwinked, humbugged, misguided, misled, snowed, strung along, took in, tricked
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