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annoying

adj
/əˈnɔɪ.ɪŋ/

Etymology

From annoy + -ing.

  1. derived from odium — “loathing, hatred”
  2. derived from inodio — “to make loathsome”
  3. derived from enoiier — “to bother, disturb”
  4. inherited from anoyen
  5. suffixed as annoying — “annoy + ing”

Definitions

  1. Causing irritation or annoyance

    Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.

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

  2. present participle and gerund of annoy

  3. That which annoys

    That which annoys; an annoyance.

    • […] 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at annoying. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01annoying02troublesome03anxiety04distressing05distressful06distress07suffering08pain

A definitional loop anchored at annoying. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at annoying

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA