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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents" [syn: shrewish, nagging]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see nag II

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nag Nag, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Nagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Nagging.] [Cf. Sw. nagga to nibble, peck, Dan. nage to gnaw, Icel. naga, gnaga, G. nagen, & E. gnaw.] To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously. [Colloq.] ``She never nagged.'' --J. Ingelow.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nagging Nag"ging, a. Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A nagging pain is not very severe but is difficult to cure. He complained of a nagging pain between his shoulder blades. ADJ: ADJ n see also nag

Moby Thesaurus

adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, captious, captiousness, carping, catty, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chronic, coaxing, continual, continuous, critical, criticism, cynical, demanding, distressing, dunning, exception, faultfinding, flak, fretful, hairsplitting, haunting, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercritical, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, importunate, importunateness, importunity, imputation, indelible, insistent, knock, naggy, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, obsessive, overcritical, overcriticalness, peevish, persistent, pestering, pettifogging, pettish, petulant, plaguing, plying, pressing, pressure, priggishness, querulous, quibble, quibbling, rap, recurrent, recurring, reflection, relentless, reproachfulness, resentful, shrewish, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, teasing, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, ultracritical, unforgettable, unrelenting, urgency, urgent, urging, vixenish, vixenly, wheedling