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chagrining

chagrining adjective: annoying, vexing. Also the present participle and gerund of chagrin.

Adjective

chagrining (comparative more chagrining, superlative most chagrining)

  1. Annoying, vexing.
    • Nothing can be conceived more chagrining, than for an officer to see himself destitute of every necessary, while another, not only in the service of the same government, engaged in defending the same cause, but even in the same regiment, and sometimes standing by his side in the same company, is...1780, George Washington, Letter to the President of Congress, in Jared Sparks (ed.), The Writings of George Washington, New York: Harper, 1847, Volume 7, pp. 11-12
    • No ill-weather in Hay or Harvest ever gave me so chagrining a disappointment.1789, Robert Burns, Letter to Frances Anna Dunlop, dated January 1789, in William Wallace (ed.), Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1898, Volume I, p. 201

Also used as

chagrining is also the present participle and gerund of chagrin.

Forms of chagrining

comparativemore chagrining
superlativemost chagrining
alternative misspellingchagrinning

Questions about chagrining

What does chagrining mean?
Chagrining means annoying, vexing.
What part of speech is chagrining?
Chagrining is an adjective.

Words near chagrining in the dictionary

  1. chagrin
  2. Chagrin Falls
  3. chagrine
  4. chagrined
  5. chagrines
  6. chagrining
  7. chagrinned
  8. chagrinning
  9. chagrins
  10. chags
  11. chagual

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