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View synonyms for exasperated

exasperated

[ ig-zas-puh-rey-tid ]

adjective

  1. feeling or expressing extreme annoyance or irritation:

    In the final moments of a wild debate, the exasperated moderator tried to regain control of the conversation.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of exasperate ( def ).

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Other Words From

  • ex·as·per·at·ed·ly adverb
  • un·ex·as·per·at·ed adjective

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Word History and Origins

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Example Sentences

This year APEC seemed to stand for: Asian People Exasperated with China.

Understandably, even Tea Leoni is a bit exasperated with all the questions about Clinton comparisons, shouting “Kissinger!”

As I hasten to reassure these exasperated moms and dads, I had to be in the office anyway.

Finally, an exasperated Eisenhower ordered the support necessary to help recover Paris.

He may have been particularly exasperated because he had just been texting with his wife about dinner.

This exasperated the students so that they began one of those demonstrations for which Paris is famous.

Seymour, exasperated by finding that no party was inclined to support his pretensions, spoke with extravagant violence.

Gila Bend had exasperated him because it was not the town it called itself, but a huddle of adobe huts.

But who knows; he was perhaps more exasperated by ill fortune, delirium, or despair, than really bad at heart.

At other places, exasperated at the chiefs of the episcopal party, the communiers were demolishing their fortified houses.

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