Aggravated vs Pissed - What's the difference?
aggravated | pissed |
(aggravate)
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. — .
To exasperate; to provoke, to irritate.
* 1748 , (Samuel Richardson), Clarissa :
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, chapter=1 * 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 85:
(piss)
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, colloquial) Drunk.
* {{quote-book
, year=1996
, author=Hunter Davies
, title=The Beatles
, page=79
, passage=The waiters would send us up beer onstage as well as food, so now and again we'd end up getting pissed while we were playing.}}
* 2006 , Dean Riley, The Reveller: Every Lie Has Eighty Percent Truth ,
* 2008 , Terry Beresford, ''Shiner,
(US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) Annoyed, angry.
* 1987 , Jeb Stuart, Steven E. DeSouza, , “Holly and Ginny” scene 287:
* 1989 , Judith Stiehm, Arms And The Enlisted Woman ,
* 2009 , Steve Serby, No Substitute for Sundays: Brett Favre and His Year in the Huddle with the New York Jets ,
As verbs the difference between aggravated and pissed
is that aggravated is past tense of aggravate while pissed is past tense of piss.As an adjective pissed is
drunk.aggravated
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* aggravatedlyaggravate
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Verb
(aggravat)- To aggravate my woes. —
- To aggravate the horrors of the scene. —.
- The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. —Addison.
- If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.
citation, passage=“It is a pity,” he retorted with aggravating meekness, “that they do not use a little common sense. The case resembles that of Columbus' egg, and is every bit as simple. […]”}}
- Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic.
Usage notes
* Although the meaning "to exasperate, to annoy" has been in continuous usage since the 16th century, a large number of usage mavens have contested it since the 1870s. Opinions have swayed from this proscription since 1965, but it still garners disapproval in Garner's Modern American Usage (2009), at least for formal writing.Synonyms
* heighten, intensify, increase, magnify, exaggerate, provoke, irritate, exasperate * See alsoExternal links
* * ----pissed
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)page 201,
- We finished the bottle off and I was more pissed than ever, I was a fucking mess, and Johnny carried me to bed.
page 24,
- We drank, getting more and more pissed , and as we did, these four birds were growing more and more attractive, so we all sat down with them, but none of them wanted to know us, just Peter, dirty fucking bastard he was.
- That one look pissed Ms. Gennero...
page 255,
- Some women were physically incapable, and the guys would say, “See, I told you women can?t hack it.” The more I saw of that, the more pissed I got, and the more determined I got to stick it out.
page xv,
- So I was already pissed' at Bill to begin with, for what happened with the O?Donnell disaster the year before, and now I was even more ' pissed at the fuckin? guy.
