peeve
/piːv/
peeve noun: an annoyance or grievance.
Noun
peeve (plural peeves)
Verb
peeve (third-person singular simple present peeves, present participle peeving, simple past and past participle peeved)
peeve meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
peeve in Urdu
- چڑچڑ
peeve in Bengali
- বিরক্ত, রাগান্বিত করা
peeve in Malayalam
- annoy, irritate, vex
- വെറിപിടിപ്പിക്കുക, ശുണ്ഠിപിടിപ്പിക്കുക, അലട്ടുക, അലോസരപ്പെടുത്തുക, അസഹ്യപ്പെടുത്തുക, ശല്യപ്പെടുത്തുക
Synonyms of peeve
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Forms of peeve
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | peeves |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | peeves |
| present participle | peeving |
| past participle | peeved |
| past | peeved |
Origin of peeve
Back-formation from peevish.
Words formed from peeve
- peeververein
- peevery
- peevology
- peevologist
- peeve off
Words that rhyme with peeve
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- eve
- grieve
- Kharkiv
- breve
- conceive
- naive
- neve
- Pishchiv
- weave
- keeve
- Neave
- Piskiv
- reeve
- screeve
- skeeve
- aggrieve
- beleave
- French leave
- greave
- interweave
- perceive
- reave
- seave
- sheave
- shrieve
- sleave
- steeve
- steve
- take French leave
- Abib
- beeve
- deceive
- dreve
- Dutch leave
- eave
- gneeve
- khedive
- nieve
- preconceive
- rebelieve
- reperceive
- thieve
- transceive
- we've
- Yves
Questions about peeve
- What does peeve mean?
- Peeve means an annoyance or grievance.
- What is peeve in Urdu?
- Peeve in Urdu is چڑچڑ. See Peeve meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is peeve?
- Peeve can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce peeve?
- Peeve is pronounced /piːv/.
- What is the plural of peeve?
- The plural of peeve is peeves.
Words near peeve in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: peeve (page history and authors); peeve (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); peeve (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); peeve (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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