vexation

Other forms of vexation

plural

vexations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vexation

What does vexation mean?

vexation means "anger produced by some annoying irritation". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vexation?

vexation has 4 syllables: vex-a-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for vexation?

Close synonyms include annoyance, chafe, irritation, annoyance, botheration. 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 vexation a common word?

vexation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.