annoying

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der.

Proto-Italic *odjom

Latin odium

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Late Latin inodiāre

Old French enoiierbor.

Middle English anoyen

English annoy

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Proto-Germanic *-andz

Proto-West Germanic *-andī

Old English -ende

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Middle English -yngeinflu.

Middle English -ynge

English -ing

English annoying

From annoy + -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈnɔɪ.ɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪɪŋ

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:annoying

Derived terms

• annoyingly
• annoyingness
• unannoying

Translations

causing irritation or annoyance — see also irritating

• Arabic: مُزْعِج (muzʕij)
• Belarusian: раздражня́льны (razdražnjálʹny), абры́длівы (abrýdlivy), даса́дны (dasádny)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: makaurag

• Bulgarian: досаден (bg) m (dosaden)
• Catalan: molest (ca) m, enutjós (ca), enfadós, fastijós
• Cebuano: samok
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 討厭 / 讨厌 (zh) (tǎoyàn), 煩人 / 烦人 (zh) (fánrén)

• Czech: otravný (cs) m
• Danish: irriterende
• Dutch: vervelend (nl), irritant (nl), storend (nl)
• Esperanto: agaca, ĝena
• Finnish: ärsyttävä (fi), närkästyttävä (fi)
• French: agaçant (fr), irritant (fr), énervant (fr), ennuyeux (fr), ennuyant (fr)
• Georgian: აბეზარი (ka) (abezari)
• German: ärgerlich (de), lästig (de)

  East Central German: aarchrlich

• Greek: ενοχλητικός (el) (enochlitikós)
• Hebrew: מעצבן (he)
• Hungarian: bosszantó (hu)
• Icelandic: truflandi, pirrandi
• Interlingua: moleste
• Irish: bearránach
• Italian: pesante (it), seccante (it), scocciante (it), fastidioso (it), inopportuno (it), irritante (it)
• Japanese: 煩い (ja) (うるさい, urusai), うるさい (ja) (urusai), 迷惑 (ja) (めいわく, meiwaku), 面倒 (ja) (めんどう, mendō)
• Kapampangan: makakulami
• Korean: 성가시다 (ko) (seonggasida), 귀찮다 (ko) (gwichanta), 짜증스럽다 (ko) (jjajeungseureopda)
• Ladino: fastidiozo
• Latin: molestus
• Macedonian: до́саден (dósaden)
• Middle English: diseseful, anoiful, irkesom
• Norman: embêtant
• Norwegian: irriterende (no), plagsom (no), brysom (no), enerverende

  Bokmål: sjenerende

• Polish: irytujący (pl), drażliwy (pl), upierdliwy (pl) m
• Portuguese: irritante (pt), chato (pt)
• Romanian: enervant (ro), supărător (ro) m or n
• Russian: доса́дный (ru) (dosádnyj), надое́дливый (ru) (nadojédlivyj), раздража́ющий (ru) (razdražájuščij), назо́йливый (ru) (nazójlivyj), доку́чливый (ru) (dokúčlivyj)
• Sicilian: siccanti, camurriusu, camuriusu
• Spanish: molesto (es), fastidioso (es), molestoso (es), lacroso, chinchoso (es), cargante (es), engorroso (es), enfadoso (es)
• Swedish: irriterande (sv), dryg (sv) (youthful), förarglig (sv)
• Tagalog: nakaaasar, nakaiinis, nakauurat
• Thai: น่ารำคาญ (nâa-ram-kaan)
• Turkish: can sıkıcı (tr), gıcık (tr) (informal), sinir (tr) (informal), kıl (tr) (person - informal), sinir bozucu, sinirlendirici (tr), rahatsız edici
• Ukrainian: дратівли́вий (drativlývyj), доса́дний (dosádnyj), набридливи́й (nabrydlyvýj)
• Vietnamese: phiền (vi) (煩), phiền phức (vi), phiền toái (vi)
• Welsh: plagus

Verb

annoying

1. present participle and gerund of annoy

Noun

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.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “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.

Anagrams

• yangonin