Definitions for vexatious

vexatious vex·a·tious

Spelling: [vek-sey-shuh s]
IPA: /vɛkˈseɪ ʃəs/

Vexatious is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 313 anagrams from letters in vexatious (aeiostuvx).

Definitions for vexatious

adjective

  1. causing vexation; troublesome; annoying:
  2. Law. (of legal actions) instituted without sufficient grounds and serving only to cause annoyance to the defendant.
  3. disorderly; confused; troubled.

Origin of vexatious

First recorded in 1525-35; vexati(on) + -ous

Examples for vexatious

Of course, one must always pay the price, usually a vexatious one.

I suppose it is vexatious to him to be kept out of his money.

As he is the weaker, the Vole is obliged to submit to this vexatious tax.

I was still wrestling with this vexatious question when I came to my mother's house.

We are quoted as a vexatious question, and the eyes of the world are upon us.

It is too long to write—and too vexatious” (this word was half erased), “troublesome.

In vexatious Latin America, they knew that a blue chip ego was an asset.

At last the vexatious work was finished, and he was free again.

It's vexatious, when one has the wherewithal to pay for wetting his whistle!

To Wellington this was perhaps the most vexatious of all things in that vexatious time.

Word Value for vexatious
Scrable

19

Words with friends

21

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