Synonyms for vexed
vɛkstvexed

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1. annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered, vexedadjective

   troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

   "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager"

   Synonyms:
   nettled, pissed off, pestered, pissed, peeved, riled, irritated, miffed, stung, harassed, annoyed, roiled, steamed, harried

   Antonyms:
   easy, untroubled

2. vexedadjective

   causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed

   "the vexed issue of priorities"; "we live in vexed and troubled times"

   Synonyms:
   harassed, annoyed, pestered, harried

   Antonyms:
   easy, untroubled

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1. vexedadjective

   Synonyms:
   irritated, plagued, worried, harassed, annoyed, troubled, provoked

2. vexedadjective

   Synonyms:
   disputed, contested, in dispute

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1. List of paraphrases for "vexed":

   upset

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1. Professor Frankum:

   The whole consent issue is quite vexed. People sometimes feel they’re consenting to one thing and it turns out to be something else.

2. William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.:

   Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

3. Professor Frankum:

   There are ways of creating educational images for patients that don’t involve live streaming potentially vulnerable individuals, the whole consent issue is quite vexed. People sometimes feel they’re consenting to one thing and it turns out to be something else.

4. J. F. Boyse:

   If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand.

5. Sophocles:

   Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.