aggravating
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]aggravating
- present participle and gerund of aggravate
Adjective
[edit]aggravating (comparative more aggravating, superlative most aggravating)
- That makes something worse.
- Antonyms: alleviating, extenuating, mitigating
- aggravating circumstances
- (informal) Annoying.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “aggravating”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “aggravating”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “aggravating”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.