aggravator
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7.5
- noun
- /ˈæɡrəˌveɪtər/
:
irritador
- My noisy neighbor is a constant aggravator who plays loud music late at night.
Examples
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Congress might also set out a carefully crafted set of aggravators for capital cases involving the rape of a child.
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For example, aggravators could include the age of the victim, the number of victims, whether the perpetrator abused a trust relationship, and whether the victim suffered severe physical injury apart from the rape.
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Telling the jury not to balance the aggravators and the mitigators touched on the central task of the jury in deciding whether to impose life without parole.
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In other words, designing appropriate aggravators in the capital punishment context was hard work, may have involved constitutional errors, and ultimately yielded an imperfect product.
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The way he mocks my ideas makes him an aggravator in our discussions.
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When she interrupts everyone with her opinions, she becomes a real aggravator in meetings.
Synonyms
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9.9
A mildly rude word for an annoying or playful person
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7.2
A person or thing that often causes trouble
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2.1
A person who keeps bothering others
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3.2
A person or thing that bothers you
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6.5
A person who stirs up strong public feelings for political change
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6.8
A person who starts trouble or urges others to act
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6.3
A person who repeatedly bothers, threatens, or scares others
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8.4
A person who often annoys others by pointing out problems or asking hard questions
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8.6
A person or thing that keeps annoying others
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9.5
A person who often annoys or causes trouble
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6.5
A person who annoys others by repeating small actions
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7.5
A person who starts trouble on purpose to make others react
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9.9
A person who is annoying or causes trouble
A person who bothers others by teasing and making fun
A person who annoys others by asking too many questions or interrupting them
A person who on purpose makes others start trouble or fight
A person who causes problems by starting arguments or fights
A person who keeps complaining or criticizing in an annoying way
A person who makes small problems into big arguments
Antonyms
How Annoying
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aggravator comes from aggravate, which comes from the Latin root gravis meaning 'heavy'. Think of an aggravator as someone who 'makes things heavier' in a feeling way, so they make a problem worse or annoy you.