annoy

CEFRB1

/əˈnoɪ̯/

verb · noun

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01
verb
To make someone feel slightly angry or impatient.
02
verb
Extra detail
A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.

Examples

His constant joking was beginning to annoy her.
Muiriel likes to annoy me lately.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/əˈnɔɪ̯/

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verb

Extra meanings

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

noun

Extra meaning

That which causes such a feeling.

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In context

Those impossible suggestions just annoy me.
Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.
to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

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Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; / Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, / Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'r enjoys.
1735, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
You Klaestrons are allies of the Cardassians; your knowledge of the station confirms that they must have given you the layouts. Which not only compromises Bajoran security, but also... annoys us.
1993, D.C. Fontana, Peter Allan Fields, “Dax”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor)
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
1644 December 2 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 23 November 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC
Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
1691, Matthew Prior, Pastoral to Dr. Turner, Bishop of Ely

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Origin

verb

From Middle English anoyen, from Old French anoier (“to bother, disturb”), from Late Latin inodiāre (“to make loathsome”), derived from Latin odium (“loathing, hatred”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan, gremman.

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verb

The constant loud music from the neighbor's apartment began to blank me while I tried to study.