| 例句 |
naggingadjective causing worry or anxietyI have this nagging feeling that something will still go wrong discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, nasty, perturbing, troublesome, troubling, troublous, unsettling, upsetting, worrisome daunting, demoralizing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiritingchilling, frightening, scaryharassing, persecutive, persecutoryalarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, scary, shocking, terrible, terrifying reassuring calming, quieting, settling, soothingcomforting, consoling, dreamy, inviting, lulling, narcotic, pacifying, relaxing, sedative, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp remindersshe kept nagging him to fix the furnace before the weather got any colder dogging, henpecking, hounding, needling, pecking (at) carping (at), fussing (about or over), nitpickingannoying, badgering, baiting, bothering, bugging, chivying(or chivvying), harassing, harrying, hassling, irking, pestering, plaguing, riding, vexing, yapping (at)egging, goading, inciting, prodding, prompting, spurring, urgingexhorting, insisting, pressing, pressuring, pushingblandishing, cajoling, coaxing, wheedlingbegging, importuning, pleading picking at complimentingcommending, lauding, praising, recommending, toutingacclaiming, applauding, building up, eulogizing, extolling to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomelyif all you can do is nag, then you are of no use to this organization at all beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bleating, carping, caterwauling, complaining, crabbing, croaking, fussing, griping, grizzling, grouching, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumping, hollering, inveighing, keening, kicking, kvetching, maundering(chiefly British), moaning, murmuring, muttering, repining, screaming, squawking, squealing, wailing, whimpering, whinging(or whingeing, British), whining, yammering, yawping(or yauping), yowling objecting (to), protesting, quarreling (with)(or quarrelling (with))caviling(or cavilling), quibblingfretting, stewing, worryingblubbering, crying, sobbingbemoaning, bewailing, deploring, lamenting kicking up a fuss crowing, delighting, rejoicing accepting, bearing, countenancing, enduring, taking, toleratingapplauding, cheering, commending in 1829 |