adj
Meaning 1
Exasperated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
exasperate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæsp(ə)ɹeɪt/
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Received-Pronunciation, also: /ɪɡˈzɑːspəɹeɪt/
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rhymes with -æspəɹeɪt
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CMU ARPABET: IH0 G Z AE1 S P ER0 EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Exasperated; embittered.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: aggravate, rile, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug, get, grate, burn up, bedevil, cheese off, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, peeve off, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, rile up, roil, storm, test someone's patience, tick off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, tee off, torque off
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To overaspirate the letter h, or to aspirate it whenever it begins a word, once a common form of hypercorrection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, humorous, obsolete, slang
Examples
- quoted (from Punch magazine) in 2005, David Crystal, The Stories of English COCKNEY HOBSERVATION. — Cockneys are not the only people who drop or exasperate the 'h's.' It is done by common people in the provinces, and you may laugh at them for it.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
make worse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- This drug aggravates the pain
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: worsen, aggravate, exacerbate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: irritate, inflame, degrade, cheapen
verb
Meaning 6
make furious
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: infuriate, incense
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: anger
verb
Meaning 7
exasperate or irritate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exacerbate, aggravate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: anger
History
Etymology
First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin exasperātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin exasperō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + asperō (“to make rough”), from asper (“rough”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
A pun on the usual sense of exasperate (to annoy) and aspirate.
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: раздразвам (razdrazvam) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Bulgarian: разгневявам (razgnevjavam) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Catalan: exasperar — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Chinese Mandarin: 激怒 (jīnù) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Chinese Mandarin: 惹火 (rěhuǒ) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Czech: popudit — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Czech: podráždit — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Czech: dráždit — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Czech: rozčilovat — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Dutch: tot wanhoop drijven — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Esperanto: ĉagreni — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Finnish: ärsyttää — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Finnish: suututtaa — frustrate, vex, annoy
- French: exaspérer — frustrate, vex, annoy
- German: verärgern — frustrate, vex, annoy
- German: aufbringen — frustrate, vex, annoy
- German: auf die Palme bringen — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Greek: εξοργίζω (exorgízo) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Ancient Greek: παροργίζω (parorgízō) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Hungarian: dühít — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Hungarian: feldühít — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Hungarian: felbőszít — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Hungarian: bőszít — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Hungarian: ingerel — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Hungarian: bosszant — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Ido: iracigar — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Ido: exasperar — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Irish: cráigh — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Italian: esasperare — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Japanese: 怒らせる (okoraseru) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Japanese: いらいらさせる (irairasaseru) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Kazakh: ашуландыру (aşulandyru) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Māori: whakahōhā — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Māori: whakakawakawa — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Māori: rangirangi — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Norman: rébéqui — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Persian: کفر کسی را در آوردن (kofr-e kasi râ dar âvardan) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Polish: wkurzać — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Polish: wkurzyć — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Polish: irytować — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Polish: zirytować — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Portuguese: exasperar — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Russian: серди́ть (serdítʹ) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Russian: раздража́ть (razdražátʹ) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Russian: возмущать (vozmuščatʹ) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Russian: изводи́ть (izvodítʹ) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Russian: беси́ть (besítʹ) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Russian: приводи́ть в я́рость (privodítʹ v járostʹ) — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Scottish Gaelic: sàraich — frustrate, vex, annoy
- Spanish: exasperar — frustrate, vex, annoy