Annoy vs False - What's the difference?
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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
* Prior
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To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
To molest; to harm; to injure.
* Evelyn
A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
* 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose :
* 1870 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sciety and Solitude :
That which causes such a feeling.
* 1594 , William Shakespeare, King Rchard III , IV.2:
* 1872 , Robert Browning, "Fifine at the Fair, V:
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb annoy
is to disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.As a noun annoy
is a feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.annoy
English
Verb
(en verb)- Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
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- to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
- tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
Synonyms
* (to disturb or irritate) bother, bug, hassle, irritate, pester, nag, irk * See alsoAntonyms
* pleaseNoun
(en noun)- I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / [...] In such annoy contynuely.
- if she says he was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy .
- Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy [...].
- The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy [...].
Synonyms
* (both senses) annoyanceReferences
* *Anagrams
*false
English
Adjective
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