| 单词 | nettled |
| 释义 | nettled (once / 4648 pages) adj When you're nettled, you're irritated or annoyed. You might be nettled by the terrible traffic on the way to work every morning. Your favorite teacher might be nettled when very few students hand in their homework, and your mom might tend to get nettled when she's at a very loud restaurant and can't hear what anyone is saying. To be nettled is to be exasperated or peeved, and the word developed in the 1400s as a figurative version of the verb to nettle, "to beat with nettles." Nettles, of course, are a prickly, stinging plant. WORD FAMILYnettle: nettled, nettles, nettlesome, nettling+/nettlesome: nettlesomely USAGE EXAMPLESEven so, its growing influence on the continent has nettled India and Japan, who are both boosting their engagement in response. Economist(Aug 11, 2016) Alito, even more visibly nettled than usual, cuts him off. Slate(Mar 28, 2016) When I was older, a self-conscious teenager, the memory of those Peter years nettled me. Salon(Jun 27, 2015) adj aroused to impatience or anger feeling nettled from the constant teasing Syn annoyed, irritated, miffed, peeved, riled, roiled, steamed, stung displeased not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure |
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