annoying

From annoy +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /əˈnɔɪ.ɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪɪŋ

annoying (comparative more annoying, superlative most annoying)

1. Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.

   Having flies in your bedroom when you're trying to sleep is really annoying.

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annoying

1. present participle and gerund of annoy

annoying (plural annoyings)

1. (rare) That which annoys; an annoyance.
   • 1865, William Buell Sprague, Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit:

     […] they lose the true spirit of Christianity; and, while their heads are filled with clouds of mysticism, and the smoke of metaphysical nonsense, their hearts are filled with uncharitableness and bitter annoyings.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “annoying”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “annoying”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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