vexed
/ˈvɛkst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
verb
simple past and past participle of vex
Example Sentences
- "She became more and more vexed as she struggled to cope with the demands of the job."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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 […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin vexōbor. Old French vexerbor. Middle English vexen Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed Middle English vexed English vexed From Middle English vexed, vexede, vexit, vixid, equivalent to vex + -ed.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more vexed (comparative)
most vexed (superlative)