What is another word for irritating ?

enough to try the patience of a saint

Causing annoyance, impatience, or mild anger

enough to drive you up the wall

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

labored^US

laboured^UK

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“She has an irritating voice which is not offset by special mannerisms or eccentricities.”

Adjective

Having or causing a tingling or itching sensation

“Emma scrubbed away the irritating spines of some velvety pods her bare arm had brushed against during the afternoon.”

Adjective

Causing inconvenience to someone

unfavorable^US

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“Regardless, a little trip up the Peloponese to Epidavros might mollify Eros and relieve me of Lena and her irritating demands.”

Adjective

Causing discomfort, unhappiness, or revulsion

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

sombre^UK

somber^US

unfavorable^US

ill-favored^US

humourless^UK

humorless^US

ill-humored^US

fetid^US

foetid^UK

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

off-colour^UK

off-color^US

gray^US

grey^UK

to be avoided

strictly for the birds

too horrible for words

gruelling^UK

as plain as a pikestaff

grueling^US

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Adjective

Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed

libellous^UK

libelous^US

unfavorable^US

politically incorrect

dishonoring^US

minimizing^US

minimising^UK

groveling^US

grovelling^UK

libeling^US

libelling^UK

ill-humored^US

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Adjective

Deserving of condemnation or execration

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Adjective

nothing to write home about

Causing one to feel bored

colorless^US

colourless^UK

lacklustre^UK

lackluster^US

anaemic^UK

anemic^US

laboured^UK

labored^US

driveling^US

drivelling^UK

flavourless^UK

flavorless^US

wintry^US

wintery^UK

meager^US

meagre^UK

gray^US

grey^UK

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

nothing to get excited about

sombre^UK

somber^US

blending into the background

neither one thing nor the other

nothing out of the ordinary

paralysed^UK

paralyzed^US

of little consequence

not amounting to much

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Adjective

Rude and caustic in manner or expression

rubbing the wrong way

ill-humored^US

colourful^UK

savoury^UK

savory^US

colorful^US

sulphurous^UK

sulfurous^US

accidentally on purpose

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

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Adjective

Having, or causing, a painful, prickling or stinging sensation

Adjective

Affected with, or causing, physical discomfort or pain

discoloured^UK

discolored^US

agonised^UK

agonized^US

feeling uncomfortable

red-rimmed

playing up

giving someone gyp

giving someone trouble

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Adjective

without a care in the world

Ironic in nature, usually in an absurd or annoying way

flakey^US

flaky^UK

bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

pulling one's leg

full of vim and vigour

full of get-up-and-go

full of beans

full of joie de vivre

full of the joys of spring

as merry as a grig

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Verb

getting in someone's hair

(usually used in third person form "gets") Annoying or irritating (someone)

rubbing up the wrong way

giving someone the hump

driving mad

driving crazy

driving nuts

making someone see red

getting on someone's nerves

getting on someone's tits

getting on your nerves

getting someone's back up

getting someone's dander up

getting someone's goat

getting someone's hackles up

getting someone's wick

getting under someone's skin

getting up your nose

gnawing

harrying

making someone's hackles rise

making your blood boil

rattling someone's cage

ruffling someone's feathers

trying someone's patience

driving to distraction

fretting

getting under your skin

bumming out

antagonising^UK

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting in your hair

putting your back up

giving someone the pip

rubbing the wrong way

jangling

driving bananas

driving you up the wall

getting your dander up

rubbing you up the wrong way

getting on one's nerves

getting your hackles up

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

hitting where one lives

making somebody's hackles rise

ruffling one's feathers

getting up someone's nose

nagging at

hurting somebody's feelings

tantalizing^US

putting someone's nose out of joint

imposing on

tantalising^UK

dumping on

bending someone's ear

victimizing^US

getting across someone

setting one's teeth on edge

causing discomfort to

breathing down someone's neck

mixing up

trying the patience of

putting on the spot

getting a rise out of

working up

victimising^UK

taking the piss out of

terrorizing^US

criticizing^US

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

making it hot for someone

sticking in one's craw

criticising^UK

making someone scratch their head

inflicting anguish on

ragging on

making things hot for someone

making someone fed up

terrorising^UK

getting on the wrong side of

causing resentment to

wigging

getting on someone

shaming

running up the wrong way

pushing someon's buttons

getting on the nerves of

getting in the hair of

pushing one's buttons

belabouring^UK

making an enemy of somebody

putting to some trouble

making severe demands on

searching high heaven

driving you crazy

making your gorge rise

sweating out

rousting

putting

bringing pressure to bear on

driving you out of your mind

driving you off your head

making you see red

driving you round the twist

driving out of mind

driving you to distraction

making somebody's blood boil

driving you round the bend

sticking the knife into

getting the knife into

upsetting the applecart

giving the cold shoulder

filling with loathing

giving a zinger

grinding

disparaging

pushing the buttons of

making self-conscious

owning

showing up

wisecracking

causing inconvenience to

imposing upon

creating difficulties for

disengaging

detaching

sending over the edge

hurting the feelings of

japing

tearing to pieces

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

knocking the wind out of

harshing one's mellow

putting out of countenance

throwing into a tizzy

tyrannizing^US

belaboring^US

jumping on one's case

giving the needle

falling on

putting the squeeze on

breaking the heart of

tyrannising^UK

pouring cold water on

throwing cold water on

bringing tears to your eyes

carrying a heavy load

knocking the stuffing out of

breaking someone's heart

harshing someone's mellow

giving someone the blues

reducing to tears

making desolate

making despondent

getting into a dither

putting someone off their stroke

making nervous

causing someone to lose their composure

having an adverse effect on

striking down

going against the grain

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

putting in traction

carping at

giving someone bother

causing someone difficulty

making someone go out of his way

satirizing^US

making your head spin

stymieing

bringing up short

disorientating

causing to be at a stand

staggering

messing with one's head

setting someone thinking

satirising^UK

pulling someone's leg

going through the mill

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“Their loud voices were beginning to irritate me, and I could feel my headache sharpen.”

Verb

Present participle for to cause inflammation to (one's skin)

sensitising^UK

sensitizing^US

stinging

swelling

itching

“Air that is too dry can irritate the lining of your nose, throat, and sinuses.”

Verb

Present participle for to aggravate, especially a wound

“Antiseptics may actually irritate the wound or cause an allergic reaction.”

Noun