annoyed

1. 1
   adjective

   Feeling troubled or irritated by something unwanted or unpleasant.

   He was visibly annoyed by the constant interruptions during his presentation.

   Commuters grew annoyed as the delayed train sat motionless for an hour.

   Similarirritated, exasperated, irked, vexed, cross

   Oppositepleased, calm, content

   Note

   The preposition after annoyed shows what the feeling is aimed at. With at, it points to a person: Judy is annoyed at Jim because he forgot the bins again. With by, it points to whatever keeps provoking it, such as interruptions or a train that will not move. The provocation itself has its own noun, an annoyance, which names the cause rather than the feeling.

2. 2
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of annoy.

   The constant tapping annoyed her throughout the meeting.

   He had annoyed his coworkers by repeating the same joke all week.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs. It is the simple past (the tapping annoyed her) and the participle that follows have in the perfect (he had annoyed them) and be in the passive. The passive blurs into the adjective for feeling irritated: if more or most fits before it, as in she was more annoyed than hurt, the word has become an adjective. Older English could also use the verb to mean harm or injure outright.

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