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Definition of Nettlesome
1. Adjective. Causing irritation or annoyance. "It is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"
Similar to: Disagreeable
Derivative terms: Plague, Plague
2. Adjective. Easily irritated or annoyed. "Not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Crank, Crankiness, Fractiousness, Irritability, Irritability, Peevishness, Pettishness, Petulance, Testiness, Tetchiness
Definition of Nettlesome
1. Adjective. (context: of a person, thing, situation, etc.) Causing irritation, annoyance, or discomfort; bothersome, irksome. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a task, problem, etc.) Thorny; difficult to deal with, especially due to being complex or tricky. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nettlesome
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nettlesome
Literary usage of Nettlesome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"nettlesome. adj. Quarrelsome, snarly. NIB. sb. A gas burner. [Glouc.] NIBS. sb.
The handles of a scythe-pole. [V. of Glos. ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1884)
"This vulgarity, so far as it is justly laid upon us, arises from a nettlesome
sense of personal rights, asserting itself in offensive ways at unsuitable ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"Is it for our interest in the great, nettlesome, ponderous traveller ; or is it
by reason of a sneaking fondness we all have for the perennial stream of ..."
4. The Bookman (1907)
"Moría, who was undoubtedly drunk—everybody admitted that—and when drunk very
nettlesome, was now for putting him at the railings round the grass-plat. ..."
5. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Fredric Solomon (1986)
"The first is the familiar pattern of group pressure on individual members who
raise nettlesome, disturbing questions that undermine the confidence of the ..."
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