Synonyms for annoy
əˈnɔɪan·noy

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1. annoyverb

   Synonyms:
   nag, irk, irritate, hassle, bother, pester, bug, annoyance

   Antonyms:
   please

2. annoyverb

   To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

   Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.

   Synonyms:
   pester, irk, bug, irritate, hassle, bother, nag, annoyance

   Antonyms:
   please

3. annoyverb

   That which causes such a feeling.

   Connie liked to annoy her brother by using him as a leg rest.

   Synonyms:
   bother, bug, pester, hassle, nag, irk, irritate, annoyance

   Antonyms:
   please

4. annoyverb

   To molest; to harm; to injure.

   Synonyms:
   irk, pester, bother, nag, bug, irritate, hassle

   Antonyms:
   please

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1. annoy

   One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.

   Synonyms:
   affront, aggravate, displease, exasperate, insult, irritate, offend, provoke, tease, vex, wound

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please

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1. annoy

   Synonyms:
   tease, vex, irritate, disturb, affront, molest, pain, disquiet, incommode, tantalize, bother, weary, inconvenience, plague, discommode, harass, chafe, trouble

   Antonyms:
   soothe, conciliate, appease, regard, quiet, accommodate, study, tend, foster, cherish, smooth, gratify

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1. annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devilverb

   cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

   "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

   Synonyms:
   nark, dumbfound, get at, reproof, chide, bait, mystify, urticate, rile, fret, dun, cod, razz, crucify, stick, bedevil, reprimand, reach, amaze, lambaste, devil, get to, rub, tantalise, frustrate, chew out, beat, lambast, trounce, tease, taunt, roil, access, berate, chew up, disoblige, torment, stupefy, lecture, trouble oneself, agitate, put out, rag, discommode, inconvenience oneself, ride, bewilder, dress down, irritate, tantalize, stir up, rally, make, remonstrate, flummox, incommode, get, baffle, jaw, rebuke, worry, pose, vex, inconvenience, perplex, raise up, bother, gravel, disturb, take to task, fray, gall, puzzle, trouble, bawl out, scratch, nettle, progress to, call on the carpet, commove, twit, excoriate, have words, chafe, scold, call down, shake up, nonplus

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1. annoyverb

   Synonyms:
   molest, trouble, vex, tease, plague, worry, harry, irritate, badger, harass, fret, gall, chafe, hector, bore, incommode, offend, disturb, disquiet, pester, bother, infest, embarrass, pain, wound

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1. annoyverb

   Synonyms:
   molest, trouble, plague, hector, bother, vex, pester, aggravate, chafe

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1. List of paraphrases for "annoy":

   bother, irritate, disturb, upset, bore

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1. Robert Southey:

   I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

2. Oscar Wilde:

   Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

3. Leo Valdez:

   I try very hard to be annoying. Don't insult my ability to annoy.

4. Wendy Suzuki:

   There's a push these days towards teaching people how to be happy, it's an attractive idea but the truth is, we are complicated organisms with an array of emotions that are there for a reason. The reason is not to annoy you. Your feelings are there to tell you about yourself and what you value and what is happening in your world.

5. Matthias Maurer:

   Everyone of us has a quirk which we are comfortable with but which can annoy others, if he hadn't said that so politely and clearly, I would have continually annoyed him.