Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Causing vexation or irritation; troublesome: an annoying cough.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of annoy.
- adj. Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. That annoys; molesting; vexatious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing irritation or annoyance
- n. the act of troubling or annoying someone
Examples
“And in New York, hurting people's feelings or being annoying is not a crime, we call that Monday.”
The Huffington Post: Jurors Grapple With Question Of Identity Theft In Dead Sea Scrolls Case
“But, what's annoying is the notion of Williams as some new racial cause célèbre, that his case was a multimedia Rodney King beat down by a bad blue NPR getting happy with microphone nightsticks.”
“But, what's annoying is the notion of Williams as some new racial cause célèbre, that his case was a multimedia Rodney King beat down by a bad blue NPR getting happy with microphone nightsticks.”
“What makes them so annoying is their assumption that they're doing us a favor by sharing their gloom and we ought to be grateful for having our day ruined, because, you know, they're enlightening us.”
“The reason some of you find Greenwald annoying is because he has you absolutely dead to rights”
“The most annoying is when you know that you have to talk to a real live person but it lists all the options except that one; you then have to go to a submenu and perhaps another submenu.”
“For the record, the reshelving idea did not even succeed in annoying Ms. Atwood.”
November « 2009 « International Science Fiction Reshelving Day
“The only thing that annoys me about the anime stories is how friggin 'annoying all the girls are!”
“• Offensive, inappropriate, or just plain annoying comments may be deleted or disemvoweled.”
“The thing that gets so annoying is that Allison is right ALL THE TIME and yet her husband and Scanlon constantly doubt her with a mocking tone.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘annoying’.
qroqqa Ambiguity between adjective and verb:
PhoneSpamFilter.com is a free service designed to assist the general public in determining which callers are annoying telemarketers. Sep 4, 2008
jeen0809 I live with an annoying creature called 'my sister'. Apr 7, 2007