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ANNOYANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of troubling or annoying someone
Synonyms:
annoyance; annoying; irritation; vexation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("annoyance" is a kind of...):
mistreatment (the practice of treating (someone or something) badly)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "annoyance"):
exasperation (actions that cause great irritation (or even anger))
red flag (something that irritates or demands immediate action)
Derivation:
annoy (cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
Example:
he's not a friend, he's an infliction
Synonyms:
annoyance; bother; botheration; infliction; pain; pain in the ass; pain in the neck
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("annoyance" is a kind of...):
negative stimulus (a stimulus with undesirable consequences)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "annoyance"):
nuisance ((law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive)
irritant; thorn (something that causes irritation and annoyance)
plague (an annoyance)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Anger produced by some annoying irritation
Synonyms:
annoyance; chafe; vexation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("annoyance" is a kind of...):
anger; choler; ire (a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "annoyance"):
irritation; pique; temper (a sudden outburst of anger)
frustration (a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized)
aggravation; exasperation (an exasperated feeling of annoyance)
harassment; torment (a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented)
displeasure (the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating
Synonyms:
aggravator; annoyance
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("annoyance" is a kind of...):
disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
Synonyms:
annoyance; botheration; irritation; vexation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("annoyance" is a kind of...):
mental condition; mental state; psychological condition; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "annoyance"):
bummer (an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing)
huff; miff; seeing red (a state of irritation or annoyance)
pinprick (a minor annoyance)
impatience; restlessness (a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay)
snit (a state of agitated irritation)
Context examples:
The motivational and/or affective state of annoyance resulting from being blocked, thwarted, disappointed or defeated.
(Frustration, NCI Thesaurus)
Such a burden to be left on my hands—and so much annoyance as she caused me, daily and hourly, with her incomprehensible disposition, and her sudden starts of temper, and her continual, unnatural watchings of one's movements!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Maple Grove has given me a thorough disgust to people of that sort; for there is a family in that neighbourhood who are such an annoyance to my brother and sister from the airs they give themselves!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“I cannot think how I came to overlook it,” said the Inspector, with an expression of annoyance.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A look of annoyance passed over Holmes’s face.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One of the cocks of his hat having fallen down, he let it hang from that day forth, though it was a great annoyance when it blew.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future annoyance.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Kindly, as usual—and, as usual, rather trite—she condoled with him on the pressure of business he had had all day; on the annoyance it must have been to him with that painful sprain: then she commended his patience and perseverance in going through with it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Traddles, with a perceptible lengthening of his face, explained that he had not been able to approach this subject; that it had shared the fate of Mr. Micawber's liabilities, in not being comprehended in the terms he had made; that we were no longer of any authority with Uriah Heep; and that if he could do us, or any of us, any injury or annoyance, no doubt he would.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“I expect that we shall be able to go down to Norfolk tomorrow, and to take our friend some very definite news as to the secret of his annoyance.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
