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# vexatious

«vexatious» in Mova's school dictionary: **annoying and troublesome, causing worry or bother again…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more vexatious, most vexatious)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Vexatious means annoying and troublesome, causing worry or bother again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/#m1)

2) (formal) In law, a vexatious case is one brought only to annoy someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a vexatious person keeps making trouble for others; in school a vexatious question keeps causing a fuss

### examples

- The vexatious fly kept buzzing at my ear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/#x1)
- Tom's vexatious questions made the teacher sigh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/#x2)
- The master punished Edmund for his vexatious habit of arguing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vexatious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.