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vexatious

Syllabification: (vex·a·tious)
Pronunciation: /vekˈsāSHəs/
Translate vexatious | into Italian
Definition of vexatious

adjective

  • causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry:the vexatious questions posed by software copyrights
  • Law denoting an action or the bringer of an action that is brought without sufficient grounds for winning, purely to cause annoyance to the defendant.

Derivatives

vexatiously

adverb

vexatiousness

noun

vexatious in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of vexatious in the British & World English dictionary
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