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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How to use annoy in a sentence?

1. Herm Albright:

   A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

2. Communications Salleh Said Keruak:

   It is an offence ... to upload any comment, request, suggestion or other communication which is obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person.

3. 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.

4. Evangelos Venizelos:

   We are on a good path, difficulties are significant but a solution will be found, measures that will annoy citizens will not be taken. This is a fundamental decision from which we will not stray.

5. Strategy Analytics consultant Roger Lanctot:

   It's not in carmakers' interest to annoy the dealer.