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Roget's Thesaurus

#835. Aggravation

Nouns

aggravation, worsening, heightening; exacerbation; exasperation; overestimation etc. 482; exaggeration etc. 549.

Verbs

aggravate, render worse, heighten, embitter, sour; exacerbate; exasperate, envenom; enrage, provoke, tease. add fuel to the fire, add fuel to the flame; fan the flame etc. (excite) 824; go from bad to worse etc. (deteriorate) 659.

Adjectives

aggravated etc. v.; worse, unrelieved; aggravable; aggravating etc. v..

Adverbs

out of the frying pan into the fire, from bad to worse, worse and worse.

Interjections

so much the worse!


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