 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
aggravation
noun
1: an exasperated feeling of annoyance [syn: {exasperation}]
2: unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment [syn: {irritation},
{provocation}]
3: action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms)
worse; "the aggravation of her condition resulted from
lack of care" [syn: {exacerbation}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aggravation \Ag'gra*va"tion\, noun [LL. aggravatio: cf. F.
aggravation.]
1. The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils,
natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or
heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and
enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
2. Exaggerated representation.
By a little aggravation of the features changed it
into the Saracen's head. --Addison.
3. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the
guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
4. Provocation; irritation. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
122 Moby Thesaurus words for "aggravation":
accelerando, acceleration, adverse circumstances, adversity,
affliction, agitation, animation, annoyance, annoyingness, arousal,
arousing, bad news, bedevilment, beefing-up, blight, blowing up,
blowup, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, bummer, care,
concentration, condensation, consolidation, crashing bore, cross,
curse, deepening, devilment, difficulties, difficulty,
disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, displeasure,
dissatisfaction, dogging, downer, drag, electrification,
enhancement, exacerbation, exaggeration, exasperation, excitation,
excitement, exhilaration, explosion, fomentation, galvanization,
harassment, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship,
harrying, headache, heating-up, heightening, hounding, incitement,
inflammation, information explosion, infuriation, intensification,
irksomeness, irritation, lathering up, magnification, molestation,
nuisance, persecution, perturbation, peskiness, pest,
pestiferousness, pickup, plaguesomeness, plight,
population explosion, pother, predicament, pressure, problem,
provocation, provokingness, redoubling, reinforcement,
resentfulness, resentment, rigor, sea of troubles, speedup,
steaming up, step-up, stimulation, stimulus, stirring, stirring up,
strengthening, stress, stress of life, tightening, tiresomeness,
trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, troublesomeness,
vale of tears, vexation, vexatiousness, vicissitude, wearisomeness,
whipping up, working up, worriment, worrisomeness, worry
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