Definitions for aggravation

aggravation ag·gra·va·tion

Spelling: [ag-ruh-vey-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌæg rəˈveɪ ʃən/

Aggravation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 461 anagrams from letters in aggravation (aaagginortv).

Definitions for aggravation

noun

  1. an increase in intensity, seriousness, or severity; act of making worse:
  2. the state of being aggravated.
  3. something that causes an increase in intensity, degree, or severity.
  4. annoyance; exasperation:
  5. a source or cause of annoyance or exasperation:

Origin of aggravation

1475-85; Medieval Latin aggravātiōn- (stem of aggravātiō); see aggravate, -ion

Examples for aggravation

It isn't the girl, you know, it's—it's the aggravation of it.

He meant that the Baron was free from an aggravation; he said that he lacked a consolation.

Whatever tends to extenuate the guilt of other sins, is an aggravation of this.

I could save myself a lot of time and aggravation if I just limited my listening to megastars and their hyped hits.

In all this there was so great an aggravation of his misery!

It was an aggravation of annoyance to have her as a witness of these contretemps.

We have worked too hard to give it up now or debt and aggravation.

Some later claimed that a cop shook a can of mace, an uncalled for act of aggravation, one man said.

Just worn out with the work, and the worry and the aggravation, that's all.

The day brought no aggravation of the symptoms; again the night was quiet.

Word Value for aggravation
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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