英语词汇“nettled”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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 FAMILY

nettle: nettled, nettles, nettlesome, nettling+/nettlesome: nettlesomely

USAGE EXAMPLES

Even 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

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 FAMILY nettle: nettled, nettles, nettlesome, nettling+/nettlesome: nettlesomely USAGE EXAMPLES Even 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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