aggravation
3
5.4
- noun
- /ˌæɡrəˈveɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
empeoramiento
- At the same time, the aggravation of the political and economic situation is continuing.
- high aggravation
- aggravation in the family
Examples
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Parents with more than three children had smaller odds of reporting low aggravation than parents with one child.
Academic text (2012) -
The business can save money and aggravation by moving to State B.
Blog text (17) -
There were no answers there, nothing but aggravation, questions we could hardly hope to understand.
Fiction book (1998) -
We have found that at the national level, foreign-born parents experienced high levels of aggravation in the family setting.
Academic text (2012) -
Parenting aggravation is a measurement of stress experienced by parents associated with caring for children.
Academic text (2012) -
Child's gender and total number of children in the household were not significant risk factors for high aggravation.
Academic text (2012) -
Ill-informed or ignorant action can be ineffective or counterproductive and can contribute to the aggravation of poverty.
Academic text (1998) -
The creation of new disagreements or the aggravation of the old ones will weaken the foundation for U.S.-Russia and U.S.-China cooperation.
Academic text (2003) -
The ongoing construction next door has become a major aggravation for our family, making it difficult to relax.
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His constant lateness was an aggravation that frustrated the entire team during the project.
Synonyms
2
8.6
A worsening of a problem, conflict, or health symptoms, for example more pain
Antonyms
How Severe
350
4.1
2
8.6
- Specialized
3
5.4
1
4.2
43
5.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aggravation comes from the Latin parts ad- and gravare, meaning 'to make heavy'. When something makes a problem or illness more 'heavy' or worse, that is an aggravation, so the word means making a situation more severe.