Usually means: Causing persistent annoyance or resentment.
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  1. rankling: Merriam-Webster
  2. rankling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rankling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Rankling, rankling: Wordnik
  5. rankling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. rankling: Wiktionary
  7. Rankling, rankling: Dictionary.com
  8. rankling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Rankling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Rankling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. rankling: FreeDictionary.org
  12. rankling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rankling: Legal dictionary

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  1. Rankling: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A sensation that rankles.

Similar:
eat into, fret, grate, rumbling, jarring, niggling, reek, gnawing, stink, rasping, more...

Opposite:
soothing, comforting, reassuring

Types:
irritating, aggravating, vexing, galling, maddening, infuriating, more...

Adjectives:
more, secret, puny, long, wrong, fearful, further, deep, jealous, less, mrs

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Similar:
eat into, fret, grate, rumbling, jarring, niggling, reek, gnawing, stink, rasping, more...

Opposite:
soothing, comforting, reassuring

Types:
irritating, aggravating, vexing, galling, maddening, infuriating, more...

Adjectives:
more, secret, puny, long, wrong, fearful, further, deep, jealous, less, mrs



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