What does aggravated mean?

aggravated means "made more severe or intense especially in law". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aggravated?

aggravated has 4 syllables: ag-gra-va-ted. The stress falls on "ag". In IPA it is /ˈæɡɹəˌveɪtɪd/.

What is another word for aggravated?

Close synonyms include provoked. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aggravated a common word?

aggravated is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with aggravated?

4 words rhyme with aggravated. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

aggravated — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
made more severe or intense especially in law
“aggravated assault”
Similarintense
2.
incited, especially deliberately, to anger
“aggravated by passive resistance”
“the provoked animal attacked the child”
Synonymsprovoked
Similarangry

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What does aggravated mean?: aggravated means "made more severe or intense especially in law". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

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