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Definition of Annoyed
1. Adjective. Aroused to impatience or anger. "Roiled by the delay"
Similar to: Displeased
2. Adjective. Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances. "The vexed parents of an unruly teenager"
Definition of Annoyed
1. Verb. (past of annoy) ¹
2. Adjective. Troubled, irritated by something unwanted or unliked; vexed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Annoyed
1. annoy [v] - See also: annoy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Annoyed
Literary usage of Annoyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"And time has made Fowler wrong his examples of very annoyed and very concerned
do not illustrate misuses of very but are in fact evidence that annoyed and ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 by George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1897)
"The name annoyed Sir Timothy.' In the same year (1826), however, the death of
Shelley's son by Harriet made little Percy a person of consequence as heir to ..."
3. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"HOW A CAT WAS annoyed AND A POET WAS BOOTED A poet had a cat. There is nothing
odd in that— (I might make a little pun about the Mews! ..."
4. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"HOW A CAT WAS annoyed AND A POET WAS BOOTED A poet had a cat. There is nothing
odd in that— (I might make a little pun about the Mews! ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Those who knew him best in the days when his mind and character were forming were
struck, and were sometimes annoyed, by a kind of dislike which he often ..."
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