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Synonyms for aggravation
ˌæg rəˈveɪ ʃənag·gra·va·tion
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Wiktionary
aggravationnoun
Synonyms:
provocation, irritationaggravationnoun
The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
Synonyms:
provocation, irritationaggravationnoun
Exaggerated representation.
Synonyms:
irritation, provocationaggravationnoun
An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
Synonyms:
provocation, irritation
Princeton's WordNet
aggravation, exasperationnoun
an exasperated feeling of annoyance
Synonyms:
provocation, exacerbation, exasperation, irritationaggravation, irritation, provocationnoun
unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
Synonyms:
discomfort, temper, annoying, exacerbation, botheration, pique, innervation, provocation, incitement, incitation, excitation, soreness, irritation, exasperation, vexation, annoyanceaggravation, exacerbationnoun
action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse
"the aggravation of her condition resulted from lack of care"
Synonyms:
provocation, exacerbation, exasperation, irritation
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
aggravationnoun
Synonyms:
a heightening (of something evil)aggravationnoun
Synonyms:
exaggerationaggravationnoun
Synonyms:
[Of questionable propriety.] provocation, irritation
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
aggravationnoun
Synonyms:
enhancement, heightening, exasperation, provocation, irritation
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "aggravation":
worsening, exacerbation, escalation, deterioration, aggravating, widening
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#9416 | annoying | |
#17321 | discomfort | |
#17491 | widening | |
#18131 | irritation | |
#18311 | deterioration | |
#19215 | temper | |
#20483 | excitation | |
#24577 | escalation | |
#28022 | annoyance | |
#33235 | worsening | |
#33441 | pique | |
#38245 | aggravating | |
#39860 | provocation | |
#47656 | aggravation | |
#49247 | innervation | |
#51700 | soreness | |
#56224 | incitement | |
#69625 | exacerbation | |
#87389 | exasperation | |
#100265 | vexation |
How to use aggravation in a sentence?
If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
The fact we know this week will avoid unnecessary aggravation from a cost perspective, the Chinese race is an important race on the calendar and China and the U.S. are the two strategic priorities for (Formula One's commercial rights holder) Liberty Media and we support that.
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I think that those porch talks, the Instagram lives were kind of essential in that process because I think that at the time, I was unwilling to do outdoor comedy or drive-in comedy or zoom comedy, I just, I couldn’t because it just seemed too difficult and I didn’t need that aggravation and I didn’t see it as a way to to process or create, i think that the Instagram lives became essential in me engaging with an audience of people that were watching, and so I was in a zone where I was putting stuff out in the world for people and doing it much like I do comedy.
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