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/ɪgzˈæspərˌeɪtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Exasperate v. t. (past & past part. exsasperated; pres. part. exasperating)

To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to excite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings. "To exsasperate them against the king of France."

To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity. "To exasperate the ways of death."

Synonyms: To irritate; provoke. See Irritate.

adjective

exasperating adj.

Extremely annoying or displeasing.

Synonyms: annoying, infuriating, maddening, vexing.

Same as exacerbating.

Synonyms: aggravating, exacerbating.

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Etymology of 'Exasperating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exasperating" Quotes from Famous Books

... despatches from General Massena to the citizen First Consul; but it seemed to me you were a fine lot of victims! Only, my poor friends, you will have to bid farewell to all that for the present; disagreeable, unlucky, exasperating, no doubt, but the ...

— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas

... could only have been engendered in mere waywardness; but throughout his reflections at this period a peevish ill-will towards England is often manifested, as if he sought to attract attention by exasperating the national pride; that pride which he secretly flattered himself was to be ...

— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt

... and that there is a boundlessness in his nature at times trying to his patience. He looks at the map of the German Empire and painfully admits that the present frontiers and area are practically those bequeathed by the great William. To a divine-right monarch this is exasperating. The loftiest ambition of a sovereign is to have the national ...

— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield

... man: he made resolutions in violent anger, and he was not to be moved from them after his anger had subsided—as fiery volcanic matters cool and harden into rock. Like many violent and implacable men, he allowed evils to grow under favour of his own heedlessness, till they pressed upon him with exasperating force, and then he turned round with fierce severity and became unrelentingly hard. This was his system with his tenants: he allowed them to get into arrears, neglect their fences, reduce their stock, sell their straw, and otherwise go the wrong way,—and then, when ...

— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot

... quantities of clothing of all kinds, far, far more than any woman without a maid could take care of. The fact that she had not had a maid was in part responsible for this superfluity. She had neither the time nor the patience for making or for directing the thousand exasperating little repairs that are necessary if a woman with a small wardrobe is always to look well. So, whenever repairs were necessary, she bought instead; and as she always kept herself fresh and perfect ...

— The Second Generation • David Graham Phillips

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