vex

The word “vex” has 1 syllable: vex

It's pronounced as /vɛks/


What is synonym and antonym for vex?

In the thesaurus, “vex” has 145 synonyms and 30 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for vex along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for vex

  • abash
  • abrade
  • addle
  • afflict
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • agitate
  • anger
  • annoy
  • antagonize
  • badger
  • baffle
  • bait
  • ballyrag
  • bamboozle
  • be at
  • beat
  • befog
  • befuddle
  • beguile
  • bemuse
  • bewilder
  • bother
  • buffalo
  • bug
  • bullyrag
  • chafe
  • chagrin
  • confound
  • confuse
  • cozen
  • deceive
  • delude
  • depress
  • devil
  • discombobulate
  • discomfit
  • discomfort
  • discompose
  • disconcert
  • discountenance
  • dismay
  • disorient
  • displease
  • disquiet
  • distress
  • disturb
  • dupe
  • eat
  • eat at
  • embarrass
  • enflame
  • enrage
  • exasperate
  • exercise
  • faze
  • flummox
  • fluster
  • fool
  • fox
  • fret
  • frost
  • fuddle
  • gall
  • get
  • get to
  • give a bad time
  • give a hard time
  • grate
  • grate on
  • gravel
  • gripe
  • gull
  • hagride
  • harass
  • harry
  • hassle
  • heckle
  • hoax
  • hoodwink
  • humbug
  • incense
  • inflame
  • infuriate
  • insult
  • irk
  • irritate
  • itch
  • madden
  • maze
  • miff
  • misguide
  • mislead
  • molest
  • mortify
  • muddle
  • muddy
  • mystify
  • nag
  • nark
  • needle
  • nettle
  • nonplus
  • offend
  • outrage
  • peeve
  • perplex
  • persecute
  • perturb
  • pester
  • pique
  • plague
  • pose
  • provoke
  • put out
  • puzzle
  • rankle
  • rasp
  • rattle
  • ride
  • rile
  • roil
  • rouse
  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • snow
  • spite
  • stick
  • string along
  • stump
  • stun
  • take in
  • tease
  • tick off
  • torment
  • trick
  • trouble
  • turn off
  • undo
  • unhinge
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • wear on
  • weird out
  • worry

Antonyms for vex

  • aid
  • appease
  • assist
  • assure
  • calm
  • cheer
  • comfort
  • conciliate
  • console
  • content
  • delight
  • ease
  • enlighten
  • gladden
  • gratify
  • help
  • inform
  • make happy
  • mollify
  • oblige
  • pacify
  • placate
  • please
  • propitiate
  • quiet
  • reassure
  • satisfy
  • solace
  • soothe
  • support

Meanings of vex

  • noun
    1. A trouble.
  • verb
    1. To trouble aggressively, to harass.
    2. To annoy, irritate.
    3. To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
    4. To twist, to weave.
    5. To be irritated; to fret.
    6. To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

Example Sentences

  • His constant interruptions vex me.
  • The complicated instructions vex many students.
  • Loud noises vex her when she is trying to concentrate.
  • The delay in the project continued to vex the team.
  • Unanswered questions vex scientists seeking the truth.

On this page you'll find 175 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to vex, such as: abash, abrade, addle, afflict, affront, aggravate, agitate.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • Murphy beds
  • aches
  • afflictions
  • afflicts
  • aggravates
  • agitates
  • agonies
  • agonizes
  • anguishes
  • annoys
  • asperities
  • assails
  • attacks
  • badgers
  • bassinets
  • batters
  • bedevils
  • beds
  • bedsteads
  • besets
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  • bunk beds
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  • cots
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  • cribs
  • cripples
  • crosses
  • crucibles
  • crushes
  • curses
  • damages
  • dangers
  • daybeds
  • difficulties
  • discomforts
  • discomposes
  • disquiets
  • distresses
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  • dogs
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  • emergencies
  • exasperates
  • excruciates
  • excruciations
  • feather beds
  • flusters
  • four-posters
  • frays
  • futon
  • futons
  • galls
  • gets
  • grates
  • grieves
  • gripes
  • hagrides
  • hammocks
  • harasses
  • hardships
  • harms
  • harries
  • harrows
  • hays
  • heartaches
  • heartbreaks
  • hounds
  • hurts
  • impairs
  • irks
  • irritates
  • jeopardies
  • kips
  • lairs
  • lames
  • mangles
  • martyrs
  • mattresses
  • miseries
  • molests
  • mutilates
  • nettles
  • oppresses
  • overpowers
  • overwhelms
  • pads
  • pains
  • pallets
  • pangs
  • peeves
  • persecutes
  • perturbs
  • pesters
  • pinches
  • piques
  • plagues
  • pricks
  • pulls
  • pursues
  • puts out
  • rasps
  • rides
  • rigors
  • riles
  • sacks
  • shakedowns
  • sleigh beds
  • smarts
  • smites
  • sofa beds
  • sofas
  • sorrows
  • stabs
  • stings
  • stitches
  • strains
  • straits
  • stresses
  • stretches
  • strikes
  • studio couches
  • taxes
  • tears
  • throes
  • torments
  • tortures
  • travails
  • trials
  • tribulations
  • tries
  • troubles
  • trundle beds
  • twinges
  • tyrannizes
  • upsets
  • vexes
  • victimizes
  • water beds
  • weakens
  • woes
  • worries
  • wounds
  • wrenches
  • wrings

vengefulness

  • acrimoniousness
  • acrimony
  • aggravation
  • air rage
  • anger
  • angriness
  • animosity
  • annoyance
  • antagonism
  • antipathy
  • belligerence
  • bile
  • biliousness
  • birse
  • bitterness
  • blowup
  • chafe
  • choler
  • contempt
  • contentiousness
  • contrariness
  • crankiness
  • cruelty
  • dander
  • delirium
  • disputatiousness
  • dudgeon
  • embitterment
  • empoisonment
  • enmity
  • envy
  • exasperation
  • flare
  • flare-up
  • furor
  • fury
  • grudge
  • heat
  • hostility
  • hot-headedness
  • huff
  • implacableness
  • indignation
  • irascibility
  • irascibleness
  • irateness
  • ire
  • irritability
  • irritation
  • jaundice
  • jealousy
  • lividity
  • lividness
  • mad
  • madness
  • malevolence
  • malice
  • mercilessness
  • mood
  • orneriness
  • outburst
  • outrage
  • passion
  • pet
  • pique
  • pugnaciousness
  • pugnacity
  • quarrelsomeness
  • querulousness
  • rage
  • rancor
  • rancorousness
  • resentment
  • retaliation
  • revenge
  • rise
  • road rage
  • ruffle
  • ruthlessness
  • spite
  • spitefulness
  • spleen
  • temper
  • venom
  • vexation
  • vindictiveness
  • virulence
  • vitriol
  • warmth
  • wrath
  • wrathfulness

narking

  • affronting
  • aggravating
  • agitating
  • angering
  • annoying
  • antagonizing
  • badgering
  • baiting
  • ballyragging
  • bothering
  • bugging
  • bullyragging
  • chafing
  • deviling
  • devilling
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disquieting
  • distressing
  • eating
  • enflaming
  • enraging
  • exasperating
  • exercising
  • fretting
  • frosting
  • galling
  • getting
  • getting to
  • grating
  • griping
  • hagriding
  • harassing
  • harrying
  • hassling
  • heckling
  • incensing
  • inflaming
  • infuriating
  • insulting
  • irking
  • irritating
  • itching
  • maddening
  • miffing
  • nagging
  • nettling
  • offending
  • outraging
  • peeving
  • persecuting
  • perturbing
  • pestering
  • piquing
  • plaguing
  • provoking
  • putting out
  • rankling
  • rasping
  • riling
  • roiling
  • rousing
  • rubbing the wrong way
  • ruffling
  • spiting
  • teasing
  • undoing
  • unhinging
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • vexing
  • wearing on
  • worrying

mad

  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acrimoniousness
  • acrimony
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • aggravated
  • aggravation
  • agitated
  • air rage
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • anger
  • angered
  • angriness
  • angry
  • animosity
  • annoy
  • annoyance
  • annoyed
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • antagonize
  • antipathetic
  • antipathy
  • antisocial
  • ape
  • apoplectic
  • ardent
  • argumentative
  • around the bend
  • asinine
  • avid
  • ballistic
  • balmy
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bearish
  • bedlam
  • belligerence
  • belligerent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • bile
  • bilious
  • biliousness
  • birdbrained
  • birse
  • bitter
  • bitterness
  • blowup
  • blue in the face
  • boiling
  • bonkers
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • brainsick
  • bristling
  • bristly
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffoonish
  • bughouse
  • burning
  • cantankerous
  • certifiable
  • chafe
  • cheesed off
  • choler
  • choleric
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • churlish
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • cold
  • concentrated
  • contempt
  • contentious
  • contentiousness
  • contrariness
  • contrary
  • cool
  • crabby
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • crankiness
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cross
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dander
  • delirious
  • delirium
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • devoted
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disordered
  • disputatious
  • disputatiousness
  • distant
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dudgeon
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • dyspeptic
  • eccentric
  • embitter
  • embittered
  • embitterment
  • empoisonment
  • empty-headed
  • enamoured
  • enflame
  • enflamed
  • enmity
  • enrage
  • enraged
  • enthused
  • envenom
  • envy
  • exasperate
  • exasperated
  • exasperation
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fallacious
  • fanatical
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • ferocious
  • feverish
  • fey
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • fixated
  • flare
  • flare-up
  • foaming
  • fond
  • fool
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fruity
  • fuming
  • furious
  • furor
  • fury
  • fussy
  • gaga
  • get
  • going crook
  • gormless
  • grouchy
  • grudge
  • grumpy
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • heat
  • high-pressured
  • hooked
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostility
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • hot-headedness
  • huff
  • huffy
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icy
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoderate
  • impassioned
  • impractical
  • imprudent
  • in a fume
  • in a huff
  • in a pet
  • incense
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • indignation
  • inept
  • infatuated
  • inflame
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intense
  • intensive
  • invalid
  • irascibility
  • irascible
  • irascibleness
  • irate
  • irateness
  • ire
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritability
  • irritable
  • irritate
  • irritated
  • irritation
  • jaundice
  • jealousy
  • jerky
  • keen
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lividity
  • lividness
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • madden
  • madness
  • malevolence
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • miff
  • mindless
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • mood
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • nettle
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • of unsound mind
  • off
  • offend
  • opaque
  • orneriness
  • ornery
  • out to lunch
  • outburst
  • outrage
  • outraged
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • passion
  • passionate
  • peeve
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • pet
  • petulant
  • pinheaded
  • pique
  • piqued
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • provoke
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • pugnacious
  • pugnaciousness
  • pugnacity
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • quarrelsomeness
  • queer
  • querulous
  • querulousness
  • quick-tempered
  • rabid
  • rage
  • raging
  • rancor
  • rancorous
  • rankle
  • rankled
  • ranting
  • raving
  • reckless
  • resentful
  • resentment
  • ridiculous
  • rile
  • riled
  • riley
  • rise
  • risky
  • road rage
  • roil
  • roiled
  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • seeing red
  • seething
  • senseless
  • shirty
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sizzling
  • slow
  • slow burn
  • slow-witted
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spite
  • spiteful
  • spleen
  • steam up
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • strange
  • stupid
  • sulky
  • surd
  • teched
  • teed off
  • temper
  • testy
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tick off
  • ticked
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • touchy
  • unbalanced
  • unconscionable
  • unconsidered
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unpleasant
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vengefulness
  • venom
  • very upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vindictive
  • vindictiveness
  • violent
  • virulence
  • virulent
  • vitriol
  • vitriolic
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warmth
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • wild
  • witless
  • worked up
  • wrath
  • wrathful
  • wrathfulness
  • wroth
  • wud
  • zany
  • zealous

cambers

  • bulges
  • bumps
  • bunches
  • convexities
  • hills
  • humps
  • juts
  • lumps
  • mounds
  • pimples
  • projections
  • protrusions
  • protuberances
  • rises
  • swellings
  • swells
  • tumors

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