vexatious

/vɛkˈseɪʃəs/

US pronunciation

American sound/vɛkˈseɪʃəs/

vɛkˈseɪʃəs

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

vɛk - ˈseɪʃəs -> vexatious

Myanmar meaning

(dated or fml) စိတ်တိုစရာ၊ ဒေါပွစရာကောင်းသော။

Full entry

vex / veks / v (esp passive) (dated or fml )

စိတ်ဆိုးသည်။ စိတ်တိုသည်။ It vexed her that she had forgotton Peter's birthday.
❏ vexation / vek'seÇʃn / n (dated or fml )
(က) [U] စိတ် အနှောင့်အယှက်။ His behaviour has caused me great vexation.
(ခ) [C esp pl ] ဒုက္ခ။ life's little vexations.
❏ vexatious / vek'seÇʃǝs / adj (dated or fml ) စိတ်တိုစရာ၊ ဒေါပွစရာကောင်းသော။
❏ vexed adj
၁။ ~ (at/with sb/sth) စိတ်ပူ[သော]။ စိတ် တို[သော]။ She looked distinctly vexed.
၂။ (of a problem, etc) ဖြေရှင်းရခက်သော။ မပြေလည်သော။ tackle the vexed issue/ question of immigration.
❏ vexing adj စိတ်တိုစရာ။ ဦးနှောက်ခြောက်စရာ။ vexing problems.

More examples

‘What vexed me enough that all those details would matter, however, was the film's treatment of women.’
‘As a Yorkshire born Aussie, the question of Scottish antipathy to the English has vexed me often.’
‘The question that has long vexed evolutionary biologists is whether these ornaments actually tell you anything about the genetic health of a male.’
‘Yesterday, he was vexed and frustrated as the weekend's fatalities ensured a flood of calls from journalists.’
‘She'd given him no instructions just as the stresses of his situation began to vex him.’
‘I'm slightly vexed to find that walking is restricted to footpaths during the grouse nesting season (May to August).’
‘His prices were too high for the Venetian grandees, who were as careful as himself with money, whilst the religious orders vexed him with quibbles and indecision.’
‘As a social activist, she was vexed by the invisibility of significant sections of the community - the homeless, the overweight and the elderly.’
‘However, many of us were vexed at our government and the souring relations with the States.’
‘And his equanimity didn't help matters, especially when she was vexed at him.’
‘Simultaneous translation is provided, but Donald Dewar is among the members vexed by the technology and his grimace is captured by photographers.’
‘The debate about private car use in York has vexed York's politicians and transport planners for decades.’
‘Times and editors change, and now instead of letters, the magazine chooses to vex their readers by not offering indices of back issues online.’
‘The finding sheds further light on a question that has vexed scientists for years: How do birds navigate between nesting areas separated by thousands of miles with pinpoint accuracy?’
‘If the Declaration inspires us with lofty ideals, the Constitution vexes us with questions of interpretation.’
‘It really vexes me to see that so many people believe that they should be able to dictate what a blogger does or does not write about.’
‘Yes, it's sad that we are still vexed by the very same issues.’
‘She gets increasingly vexed by Les who insists she say particularly silly things over the airwaves.’
‘There is something about this musical distinction that vexes me, but for the sake of the argument I'd say upbeat rock 'n' roll.’
‘I think I'll ask her this question that is vexing me so.’

Synonyms

displease, annoy, irk, irritate, anger, aggravate, exasperate, put somebody's back up, bug, put somebody's nose out of joint, abrade, afflict, agitate, be at, bother, chafe, confound, confuse, depress, disquiet, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, fret, gall, get in one's hair, get under one's skin, give a bad time, give a hard time, grate on, harass, harry, hassle, incense, infuriate, mix up, molest, muddle, needle, nettle, offend, peeve, perplex, pester, pique, plague, provoke, put out, puzzle, rasp, ride, rile, tease, tick off, torment, trouble, turn off, upset, worry

Antonyms

aid, appease, assist, calm, cheer, comfort, delight, ease, enlighten, help, make happy, mollify, pacify, placate, please, quiet, soothe, support