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Maddening

Pronunciation of Maddening
/mˈadənɪŋ/, /mˈadənɪŋ/, /m_ˈa_d_ə_n_ɪ_ŋ/

Antonyms for maddening:

pleasing, delightful.

Synonyms for maddening:

irritating (adjective)

Riling, frustrating, aggravating, infuriating, exasperating, annoying, vexatious.

Sense 1

wheedling, silly, lamentable, impossible, damnable, pathetic, unbearable, invasive, footling.

Sense 2

Other synonyms and related words:

peeving, damnable, nettlesome, bothersome, Irksome, frustrating, pestilent, rebarbative, pestiferous, silly, pesky, aggravating, invasive, plaguey, pathetic, pesty, pestilential, chafing, pestering, Nettling, Riling, annoying, galling, vexatious, irritating, Carking, disturbing, exacerbating, abrasive, teasing, unbearable, Rankling, plaguy.

Sense 1 (noun)

unbearable, pathetic.

annoying (noun)

maddening (noun)

vexing, displeasing, exasperating, infuriating.

Usage examples for maddening:

Two men, who might be twin- brothers, with the same name: it was maddening. - "Parrot & Co.", Harold MacGrath.
She had indeed arrived at a maddening moment. - "T. Tembarom", Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Surely now I had solved the maddening puzzle which the character of this girl had, so far, presented to me. - "The Crack of Doom", Robert Cromie.

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