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teasing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun teasing has 3 senses
- teasing(n = noun.act) ribbing, tantalization, tease - the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances; "he ignored their teases"; "his ribbing was gentle but persistent" is a kind of harassment, molestation
- teasing(n = noun.act) Array - playful vexation; "the parody was just a form of teasing" is a kind of caper, frolic, gambol, play, romp
- teasing(n = noun.act) comb-out - the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb; Array is a kind of comb, combing
Derived form verb tease2
Derived form verb tease9
Adjective teasing has 3 senses
- teasing(s = adj.all) mocking, quizzical - playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"
- teasing(s = adj.all) Array - arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it; "her lazy teasing smile"
- teasing(s = adj.all) annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, vexatious, vexing - causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"
THESAURUS
teasing
aggravating, alluring, annoying, appealing, appetizing, attractive, bantering, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, blandishment, booing, bothering, bothersome, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, captivating, catcalling, catching, chaffing, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, demanding, derisive, derisory, disappointing, disturbing, dunning, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exasperating, exciting, exotic, falling short, fascinating, fetching, fleering, flippant, flirtatious, fooling, galling, glamorous, grinning, harassing, hazing, hissing, hooting, hypnotic, importunate, importunateness, importune, importunity, insistent, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irking, irksome, irresistible, irritating, jeering, jesting, joking, jollying, joshing, kidding, leering, mesmeric, mocking, mouth-watering, nagging, panning, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, piquant, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, plying, prepossessing, pressing, pressure, provocative, provoking, provoquant, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, ravishing, razzing, ribbing, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, second best, seducing, seductive, siren, sirenic, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, spellbinding, spellful, taking, tantalizing, taunting, tempting, tickling, tiresome, titillating, titillative, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, twitting, unsatisfactory, urgency, urgent, urging, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wheedling, winning, winsome, witching, worrisome, worryingROGET THESAURUS
teasing
Painfulness
N painfulness, trouble, care, trial, affliction, infliction, blow, stroke, burden, load, curse, bitter pill, bitter draught, waters of bitterness, annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener, bore, bother, pother, hot water, sea of troubles, hornet's nest, plague, pest, cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn, canker, scorpion, dagger, scourge, carking care, canker worm of care, mishap, misfortune, desagrement, esclandre, rub, source of irritation, source of annoyance, wound, open sore, sore subject, skeleton in the closet, thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side, where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood, sorry sight, heavy news, provocation, affront, head and front of one's offending, infestation, molestation, malignity, causing pain, hurting, hurtful, painful, dolorific, dolorous, unpleasant, unpleasing, displeasing, disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful, uninviting, unwelcome, undesirable, undesired, obnoxious, unacceptable, unpopular, thankless, unsatisfactory, untoward, unlucky, uncomfortable, distressing, afflicting, afflictive, joyless, cheerless, comfortless, dismal, disheartening, depressing, depressive, dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous, woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable, sad, affecting, touching, pathetic, irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling, unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious, troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome, plaguing, plaguy, awkward, importunate, teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying, tormenting, carking, intolerable, insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unendurable, past bearing, not to be borne, not to be endured, more than flesh and blood can bear, enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot, shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, thrilling, tremendous, dire, heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening, harrowing, rending, odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent, horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying, offensive, nauseous, nauseating, disgusting, sickening, revolting, nasty, loathsome, loathful, fulsome, vile, hideous, sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic, cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing, envenomed, catheretic, pyrotic, ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical, desolating, withering, burdensome, onerous, oppressive, cumbrous, cumbersome, painfully, with pain, deuced, Int, hinc illae lachrymae!, surgit amari aliquid, the place being too hot to hold one, the iron entering into the soul, he jests at scars that never felt a wound, I must be cruel only to be kind, what deep wounds ever closed without a scar?.
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