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maddeningadjective causing annoyanceafter a few days, she found the monotonous work to be absolutely maddening abrasive, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, carking, chafing, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, irksome, irritating, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pesty, plaguey(also plaguy), rankling, rebarbative, riling, vexatious, vexing burdensome, discomforting, displeasing, disquieting, distressing, importunate, importune, inconveniencingangering, enraging, infuriatingbrattish, bratty, mischievous, offensive, troublesome, upsettingdistractive, painful, stressful, tiresome, troubling, trying, worrisomebiting, grating, jangling, jarring, spiny, thorny delightful, pleasing maddeningverbpresent participle of maddento cause to go insane or as if insanethe endless swarms of mosquitoes all but maddened the explorers cracking, crazing, deranging, frenzying, locoing, unbalancing, unhinging, unstringing agitating, bothering, confusing, discomposing, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, perturbing, unsettling, upsettingannoying, irritating, vexing calming, quieting, relaxing, settling, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) to make angryher perpetual tardiness maddened her friends to no end angering, enraging, incensing, inflaming(also enflaming), infuriating, iring, madding, outraging, rankling, riling, roiling, steaming up, ticking off affronting, aggravating, annoying, burning (up), crossing, exasperating, getting, huffing, irritating, miffing, nettling, offending, peeving, piquing, provoking, putting out, ruffling, vexingantagonizing, embittering, envenoming getting one's goat, rubbing the wrong way delighting, gratifying, pleasing allaying, assuaging, relievingcomforting, consoling, soothingappeasing, conciliating, mollifying, pacifying, placatingcalming, lulling, quieting, settlingbeguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, disarming, enchanting ca. 1743 |