Usually means: Frustratingly difficult to deal with.
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  1. exasperating: Merriam-Webster
  2. exasperating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exasperating: Collins English Dictionary
  4. exasperating: Vocabulary.com
  5. Exasperating, exasperating: Wordnik
  6. exasperating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. exasperating: Wiktionary
  8. exasperating: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Exasperating, exasperating: Dictionary.com
  10. exasperating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Exasperating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. exasperating: Rhymezone
  13. Exasperating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. exasperating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. exasperating: FreeDictionary.org
  16. exasperating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. exasperating: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. exasperating: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exasperating: Legal dictionary

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  1. exasperating: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  That exasperates, infuriates, annoys or irritates

Similar:
maddening, infuriating, vexing, displeasing, exacerbating, intensifying, aggravating, exasperative, provocative, asperate, more...

Opposite:
calming, soothing, relaxing, pleasing, satisfying

Types:
maddening, frustrating, irritating, annoying, bothersome, troublesome, vexing, more...

Phrases:
exasperating child, purposely exasperating, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, same, damn, plain, worst, mighty, singularly

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Similar:
maddening, infuriating, vexing, displeasing, exacerbating, intensifying, aggravating, exasperative, provocative, asperate, more...

Opposite:
calming, soothing, relaxing, pleasing, satisfying

Types:
maddening, frustrating, irritating, annoying, bothersome, troublesome, vexing, more...

Phrases:
exasperating child, purposely exasperating, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, same, damn, plain, worst, mighty, singularly

Colors:
    chartreuse,     mustard,     puce,     taupe,     mauve, more...



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