Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In heraldry, in an attitude indicating rage or ferocity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of exasperate.
  • adjective greatly annoyed; made furious
  • adjective made worse or more intense

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective greatly annoyed; out of patience

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  • "I've changed my name to Al," said Hal, exasperated.

    December 14, 2007

  • Even paranoids have enemies, as the saying goes, and even philistine university bureaucrats, it seems, do sometimes become reasonably <b>exasperated</b> by overprivileged and insulated academics

    March 11, 2015