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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

... with the narratives of Mannering and Pleydell, that this man was the prime agent in the act of violence which tore him from his family and country, and had exposed him to so many distresses and dangers. A thousand exasperating reflections rose within his bosom; and he could hardly refrain from rushing upon Hatteraick ...

— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... an unusual occurrence with me, but on a more than usually important mission. I needn't note down how I achieved it. Am I likely to forget my impotent speeches? Still, she had given me plenty of excuse for supposing she liked me, and I said so. And then Catherine laughed her exasperating little laugh that always dries up all sentiment on the spot, and makes my blood boil with anger. "I like you?" she repeated mockingly; "not at all! not in the least! What ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 • Various

... angry all of a sudden; for you can understand how exasperating such a question was to a man who didn't know. I said to myself that I ought to shut up that moralist; and to him aloud I said ...

— The Shadow-Line - A Confession • Joseph Conrad

... that ridiculous ship's march from the window to the wall and back. I am foot weary as I have never been before in my life, but I cannot say that I am excited. No person in Dublin is excited, but there exists a state of tension and expectancy which is mentally more exasperating than any excitement could be. The absence of news is largely responsible for this. We do not know what has happened, what is happening, or what is going to happen, and the reversion to barbarism (for barbarism is largely a lack of ...

— The Insurrection in Dublin • James Stephens

... shook hands with, he flashed out—seemed in contrast fairly electric. She saw him, just ahead of her where the crowd was thickening in the door of the supper-room, making way for Clara through the press with that exasperating solicitude of his that was half ironic. And the large broadside offered by her elegant Harry, matter-of-factly towing Ella by the elbow, herself conscious of a curl or two awry, and Judge Buller tramping heavily at her side, all took on to her the aspect of a ...

— The Coast of Chance • Esther Chamberlain

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