Crossword clues for exasperation
exasperation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exasperation \Ex*as`per*a"tion\, n. [L. exasperatio: cf. F. exasp['e]ration.]
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The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits.
--South. Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation. ``Exasperation of the fits.''
--Sir H. Wotton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Late Latin exasperationem (nominative exasperatio), noun of action from past participle stem of exasperare "roughen; irritate" (see exasperate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger. 2 Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation.
WordNet
n. an exasperated feeling of annoyance [syn: aggravation]
actions that cause great irritation (or even anger)
Usage examples of "exasperation".
Rover, was performing the I-give-up trick - that exclusively Bruxellois gesture of exasperation, the letting go of the steering-wheel and the flinging up of both hands.
A van-driver, swerving out and hooting, accelerating up beside the Rover, was performing the I-give-up trick - that exclusively Bruxellois gesture of exasperation, the letting go of the steering-wheel and the flinging up of both hands.
Had Diegan not needed both hands to settle his sidling mount, he could have struck the prince in exasperation.
Lord Diegan presented his requisition orders, he was met with testy exasperation.
Her lined face stiffened as she stood, deep creases of exasperation forming across her wide forehead, rippling over a pair of eyes reduced to mere shts of glinting anger.
His aide stopped dead, face flustered, and Anderson shook his head in exasperation.
Huy smiled at the attempts of one to suckle from his moving mother, groping for the teats between her front legs with his miniature trunk until in exasperation the mother picked up a fallen branch and swatted him mercilessly across the rump.
From an early age, Maia and her sister had been drawn by the bright brasswork and smell of polishing oil, browsing for hours to the exasperation of the shopkeepers.
After which, in a little house close by the more solid building in which Sulla lived, he hovered anxiously between cauldrons and toiling scrapers, insisting upon personally inspecting every carcass and every kidney, insisting that he personally test the temperature of all the water, measuring meticulously and driving the servants to the point of exasperation with his fusses and clucks and tches.
The flustered Liantine harbormaster had met him at the dock, conveying the royal party to the Great Hall with a combination of exasperation and concern.
The menders had their hands full with her, and many had simply thrown their hands up in exasperation when she stubbornly disobeyed their instructions.
There is an element of exasperation in most economic and social reactions, and there is hardly a reforming or revolutionary movement in history which is not essentially an indiscriminate attack of one functioning class or type upon another, on the assumption that the attacked class is entirely to blame for the clash and that the attacking class is self-sufficient in the commonweal and can dispense with its annoying collaborator.
She exhaled, part in exasperation, part in anger until her eyes, avoiding his, fell on the map, its mountain mounds and the Rift outlined in the last of the westerly light.
I shouted in His ear, then dashed the more rashly, for my exasperation, to aid the old man, whose two chief botherers now turned to me.
To what but a cultivation of the mechanical arts in a degree disproportioned to the presence of the creative faculty, which is the basis of all knowledge, is to be attributed the abuse of all invention for abridging and combining labour, to the exasperation of the inequality of mankind?