vexatious, adj. 1. bothersome, pestering, Inf. pesky, Inf. pestiferous, hectoring, harassing; hounding, dogging, nagging, tormenting, persecuting; troublesome, troubling, thorny, fretful, worrisome, worrying, Archaic, except Dial, plaguy.
2. irritating, annoying, provoking, peeving, nettling, chafing, Inf aggravating; disturbing, perturbing, ruffling, disquieting, vexing.
3. invidious, hateful, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious, odious; intolerable, unbearable, too much, Inf. a bit much.
4. angering, incensing, irksome, irking; maddening, infuriating, enraging; exacerbating, acerbating, embittering, rankling, galling.
5. disordered, in disorder, in disarray, disorganized, disarranged; chaotic, confused, jumbled, muddled, higgledy-piggledy, mixed-up, Inf. helter-skelter, Inf. bollixed-up, Sl. fouled-up, snafu. vexed, adj. 1. irritated, annoyed, irked, piqued, peeved, nettled, chafed, Chiefly U.S. riled, Inf. aggravated, Inf. miffed; ruffled, roiled, disturbed, disquieted, discomposed, perturbed, discountenanced; exasperated, fed up, sick and tired.
2. bothered, pestered, hectored, harassed, badgered, Sl. bugged; troubled, plagued, fretful, beset, worried; tormented, bedeviled, teased, taunted, tweaked, mocked, bullied, persecuted.
3. angry, angered, irate, incensed, mad, Inf. sore, hot and bothered, Sl. hot, Sl. hot under the collar, Sl. ticked-off, Sl. teed-off; furious, infuriated, enraged, maddened, livid, hopping mad, Inf. boiling mad, Sl. mad as a wet hen, Sl. madder than hell; galled, embittered, exacerbated, acerbate, envenomed, rankled.
4. disputed, in dispute, contested, in contention, debated; controversial, polemic, polemical; moot, questioned, doubted. via, prep, by way of; by means of, by, through, vial, n. glass vessel, small bottle; flask, test tube, Med. ampule; carafe, decanter, flagon, viands, n. delicacies, dainties, Class. Myth, ambrosia; food, nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, pabulum, sustenance, subsistence; aliment, foodstuffs, edibles; victuals, provisions, cheer, provender, commons, comestibles; board, fare, menu, diet, refreshment. vibrant, adj. 1. vibrating, vibratory, vibratile, oscillating, oscillatory, swinging, librating, libratory, seesawing, wigwagging, moving to and fro; wobbling, teetering, reeling; undulating, swaying; fluctuating, vacillating, pendulous, wavering, teeter-tottering.
2. resonant, resounding, thunderous; ringing, tolling, plangent, clangorous; echoing, reechoing, reverberating, reverberant, reverberative, reflected; thundering, rumbling, booming.
3. pulsating, pulsatory, trembling, shaking, quaking, quivering, quavering; throbbing, palpitating, beating.
4. energetic, energetical, vigorous, dynamic, electric; active, alive, full of energy, Inf. full of pep, Inf peppy, full of vim and vigor; lively, spirited, full of life, animated, vital; sprightly, spry, Chiefly U.S. Inf chipper; eager, ready to go, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. vibrate, v. 1. oscillate, move to fro, swing, move backward and forward, librate, move from side to side, ebb and flow, seesaw, wigwag; wobble, teeter, reel; undulate, wave, sway; fluctuate, vacillate, waver, vary, yo-yo, teeter-totter.
2. tremble, shake, quake, quiver, quaver, shudder, shiver; twitter, quail, jitter; pulsate, pulse, throb, palpitate, beat, pitapat.