headachy
6.5
Causing stress or annoyance and making things hard
- adjective
- /ˈhɛdeɪki/
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estresante
- I felt like an entire garden worth of scents was like surrounding me and it was a little bit headachy if you are kind of if you don't like strong scents.
Examples
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Her demands for perfection turned every little task into a headachy challenge for the team.
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It makes the house feel all headachy and ill.
Fiction book (1990) -
Trying to solve that complicated math problem became quite headachy and left me feeling frustrated.
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The constant noise from the construction outside made working from home a headachy experience.
Antonyms
How Annoying
Surface Forms
headachy positive
Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the second meaning of headachy is to think of a headache as a 'trouble' that makes your head hurt. So when something is headachy, it causes stress or annoyance and is hard to deal with.