vexation

Meaning

1. (uncountable) The action of vexing, annoying, or irritating someone or something; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (uncountable) The action of vexing, annoying, or irritating someone or something; (countable) an instance of this.
3. (uncountable) The action of vexing, annoying, or irritating someone or something; (countable) an instance of this.
4. (uncountable) The state of being vexed, annoyed, or irritated; annoyance, irritation; also, disappointment, discontentment, unhappiness; (countable) an instance of this.
5. (uncountable) The state of being vexed, annoyed, or irritated; annoyance, irritation; also, disappointment, discontentment, unhappiness; (countable) an instance of this.
6. (uncountable) The state of being vexed, annoyed, or irritated; annoyance, irritation; also, disappointment, discontentment, unhappiness; (countable) an instance of this.
7. (countable) A source of mental distress or trouble; an affliction, a woe; also, a source of annoyance or irritation; an annoyance, an irritant.
8. (obsolete, uncountable) The action of using force or violence on someone or something; (countable) an instance of this.

Synonyms

annoyance

trouble

irritation

anger

💢

worry

chagrin

distress

displeasure

nuisance

annoying

torment

botheration

pain

ire

difficulty

affliction

teasing

chafe

sorrow

indignation

effort

ache

soreness

agitation

mischief

molestation

fret

troublesome

fury

gall

harassment

wrath

bitter disappointment

headache

rage

😡

deep regret

grief

concern

inconvenience

bother

impatience

importunity

inconvenient

infestation

litigiousness

malice

matter

moil

mortification

offence

ordeal

parliament

peeve

peevishness

penalty

pet

petulance

punishment

rancour

regret

relief

resentment

retribution

ruffle

sadness

spite

stubborn

suffering

sulkiness

suspense

tease

tormenting

traverse

trial

troubles

uneasiness

vex

weariness

woe

working

worries

worriment

wrathfulness

hang it

hinderance

ill humor

hate

😡

shame

stroke

heart-sore

vitilitigation

livor

adversity

aggravation

agony

ah

ailment

angering

annoy

anxiety

attempt

aversion

bane

bewilderment

bind

burden

chafing

common barratry

complaint

consternation

cross

dander

delight

despite

disappointment

discontent

disgust

distrust

disturbance

drag

dudgeon

endeavour

exasperation

exertion

fie

fretfulness

fright

hackles

hardship

harshness

huff

Translations

irritation

ergernis

vejación

Ärger

contrariété

Kummer

tracas

ennui

agacement

Weh

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vɛkˈseɪʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: vexacioun

In summary

From Late Middle English vexacioun, vexation (“physical suffering; act of inflicting trouble (specifically through unjustified legal action); anxiety, mental distress; mental disturbance”), from Anglo-Norman vexacion, vexation, Middle French vexacion, vexation (“distress, suffering; harassment (specifically through unjustified legal action)”), and Old French vexacion, vexation (“distress, suffering; harassment”) (modern French vexation), and from their etymon Latin vexātiō (“shaking or similar violent movement; (causing of) agitation, distress, suffering; harassment, persecution; trouble”), from vexātus + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs). Vexātus is the perfect passive participle of vexō (“to shake or jolt violently; to annoy, harass; to persecute; to trouble violently”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷog- (“to shake; to swing”). By surface analysis, vex + -ation (suffix denoting an action or process or its result, or a quality or state). Doublet of quake.