vexatious

«vexatious» in Mova's school dictionary: annoying and troublesome, causing worry or bother again… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (more vexatious, most vexatious)

meaning for a pupil

1) Vexatious means annoying and troublesome, causing worry or bother again and again. tree →

2) (formal) In law, a vexatious case is one brought only to annoy someone. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories a vexatious person keeps making trouble for others; in school a vexatious question keeps causing a fuss

examples

• The vexatious fly kept buzzing at my ear. tree →
• Tom's vexatious questions made the teacher sigh. tree →
• The master punished Edmund for his vexatious habit of arguing. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «vexatious» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.