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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: anger produced by some annoying irritation [syn: annoyance, chafe, vexation]
2: the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed [syn: irritation, annoyance, vexation, botheration]
3: something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry" [syn: concern, worry, headache, vexation]
4: the act of troubling or annoying someone [syn: annoyance, annoying, irritation, vexation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. the act of harassing or vexing ; troubling 2. the quality or state of being vexed ; irritation 3. a cause of trouble ; affliction

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the act or an instance of vexing; the state of being vexed. 2 an annoying or distressing thing. Etymology: ME f. OF vexation or L vexatio -onis (as VEX)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vexation Vex*a"tion, n. [L. vexatio: cf. F. vexation.] 1. The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation. Passions too violent . . . afford us nothing but vexation and pain. --Sir W. Temple. Those who saw him after a defeat looked in vain for any trace of vexation. --Macaulay. 2. The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction. Your children were vexation to your youth. --Shak. 3. A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit. --Bacon. Syn: Chagrin; agitation; mortification; uneasiness; trouble; grief; sorrow; distress. See Chagrin.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(vexations) Vexation is a feeling of being annoyed, puzzled, and frustrated. (FORMAL) He kicked the broken machine in vexation. = annoyance N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Irritation, chagrin, displeasure, mortification, trouble, disquiet, agitation, affliction, uneasiness, grief, sorrow, distress, discomfort. 2. Torment, plague, trouble, annoyance, nuisance, curse, affliction. 3. Harassing by law, vexing, troubling, damage.

Moby Thesaurus

abomination, affliction, aggravation, agitation, all-overs, angst, annoyance, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, atrocity, bad, bad news, bane, bedevilment, befoulment, blight, bore, bother, botheration, bothering, bothersomeness, bugbear, burden, calamity, cankerworm of care, care, concern, concernment, corruption, crashing bore, crushing burden, crying evil, curse, damage, death, defilement, despoliation, destruction, detriment, devilment, difficulty, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, disease, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction, distress, disturbance, dogging, downer, drag, dread, evil, exasperation, fear, foreboding, forebodingness, grievance, harassment, harm, harrying, havoc, headache, hounding, hurt, ill, infection, infliction, injury, inquietude, irking, irritation, malaise, mischief, misgiving, molestation, nemesis, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nuisance, open wound, outrage, overanxiety, persecution, perturbation, pest, pestilence, pins and needles, plague, poison, pollution, problem, provocation, provoking, pucker, resentfulness, resentment, running sore, scourge, solicitude, stew, strain, suspense, tension, the worst, thorn, torment, toxin, trial, trouble, uneasiness, unquietness, upset, venom, vexatiousness, vexing, visitation, woe, worriment, worry, wrong, zeal