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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Causing or creating vexation; annoying.
  2. adj. Full of annoyance or distress; harassed.
  3. adj. Intended to vex or annoy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Causing vexation, annoyance, trouble, or the like; teasing; annoying; troublesome: as, a vexatious neighbor; a vexatious circumstance.
  2. Full of trouble or disquiet.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Causing vexation, annoyance, trouble, or the like; teasing; annoying; troublesome.
  2. adj. Full of trouble or disquiet; harassed; distressed; annoyed; vexed.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying.
  2. adj. Full of vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. causing irritation or annoyance

Etymologies

  1. a 1650 vexation +‎ -ous (Wiktionary)

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