vexed

From Middle English vexed, vexede, vexit, vixid, equivalent to vex +‎ -ed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛkst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkst

vexed (comparative more vexed, superlative most vexed)

1. annoyed, irritated or distressed

   She became more and more vexed as she struggled to cope with the demands of the job.

   • 1990, Terry Pratchett, Eric, page 72:

     He would be left in no doubt that they were annoyed. He might even go so far as to deduce that they were quite vexed.

2. much debated, discussed or disputed
   • 1901 December 6, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Rinderpest”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 20, page 610:

     The question, however, as to whether rinderpest bile is capable of producing the disease in a herd innoculated with it is a very vexed one, and round this point heated controversies have been waged in other places than in Natal.

   • 2004, Mary Stieber, The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai:

     I leave aside the vexed questions about whether one or two peploi were woven and presented to Athena during the Greater (every four years) and Lesser (every year) Panathenaic festivals […]

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vexed

1. simple past and past participle of vex

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