Definition for Aggravate:

• Incrcase the gravity of( burden, offence, &c.); ( colloq.) exasperate( person). So aggravation n. [ Latin]

Synonyms for Aggravate:

• n.

  •
  • escalate,
  • compound.
  •
  • frustrate,
  • intensify,
  • madden,
  • complicate,
  • increase,
  • anger.
  •
  • enhance,
  • deepen,
  • redouble,
  • heighten.
  •
  • ruffle,
  • gall,
  • feelings,
  • put out,
  • nettle,
  • bug,
  • rile,
  • get,
  • pain.
  •aggravate (noun)
  • exasperate,
  • exacerbate,
  • worsen.

• v.

  •aggravate (verb)
  • harry,
  • envenom,
  • badger,
  • inflame,
  • bother,
  • bedevil,
  • bait,
  • perturb,
  • tease,
  • exacerbate,
  • irk,
  • arouse,
  • needle,
  • pester,
  • nag,
  • peeve,
  • infuriate,
  • vex,
  • annoy,
  • upset,
  • trouble,
  • antagonize,
  • hassle,
  • discompose,
  • rankle,
  • exasperate,
  • enrage,
  • torment.
  •annoy (verb)
  • irritate,
  • exasperate,
  • pique,
  • dog,
  • bug,
  • hack,
  • get,
  • bum,
  • pick on,
  • get to,
  • vex,
  • peeve,
  • irk,
  • gall,
  • be on the back of,
  • be at,
  • pester,
  • wig,
  • needle,
  • give a hard time,
  • bother,
  • get on one's nerves,
  • nag,
  • provoke,
  • nettle,
  • tease,
  • grate.
  •cause to become worse (verb)
  • exacerbate,
  • worsen,
  • inflame,
  • exaggerate,
  • increase,
  • mount,
  • heighten,
  • enhance,
  • intensify,
  • rise,
  • rouse,
  • magnify,
  • complicate,
  • deepen.
  •chafe (verb)
  • fret,
  • wear,
  • irritate,
  • grate,
  • harass,
  • rub,
  • grind,
  • disturb,
  • rasp,
  • scrape,
  • scrub,
  • resist,
  • abrade,
  • chafe.
  •change (verb)
  • exasperate,
  • exacerbate,
  • worsen.
  •strengthen (verb)
  • intensify.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • pervert,
  • complicate.
  •
  • heighten,
  • escalate,
  • rile,
  • nettle.
  •
  • redouble,
  • deepen,
  • ruffle.
  •
  • enhance,
  • compound.
  •
  • get.
  •displease
  • cut to the quick.
  •embitter
  • embitter.
  •gall
  • galling,
  • gall.
  •increase
  • triple,
  • snowball.
  •irritate
  • rub the wrong way.
  •Other relevant words:
  • aggravating,
  • jazz up,
  • reinforce,
  • enlargement,
  • irritating,
  • roughly,
  • make complex,
  • soup up,
  • degrading,
  • sow dissension,
  • stimulate,
  • disunite,
  • irritatingly,
  • get in one's hair,
  • degeneration,
  • key up,
  • be at,
  • exercise,
  • impair,
  • miff,
  • roil,
  • lash,
  • galling,
  • challenge,
  • try,
  • blustering,
  • provocatively,
  • be on the back of,
  • worsen,
  • awful,
  • come between,
  • force,
  • redouble,
  • pick on,
  • exaggerate,
  • bum,
  • swell,
  • augment,
  • degradation,
  • vexatious,
  • triple,
  • damage,
  • exciting,
  • compound,
  • blow up,
  • foment,
  • give offense,
  • get on one's nerves,
  • heat up,
  • fan the flame,
  • breach,
  • irritable,
  • whet,
  • molest,
  • kindle,
  • harshly,
  • itch,
  • stir up trouble,
  • increase,
  • irritation,
  • add,
  • hyperbolize,
  • fury,
  • make acute,
  • beef up,
  • agent provocateur,
  • hop up,
  • overcharge,
  • brown off,
  • set up,
  • decay,
  • atrocious,
  • profane,
  • heckle,
  • ride,
  • heighten,
  • lengthen,
  • painful,
  • build up,
  • shameful,
  • pique,
  • get at,
  • irritative,
  • get under one's skin,
  • troublesome,
  • sharpen,
  • pit against,
  • raspingly,
  • bullyrag,
  • spread,
  • put back,
  • expand,
  • multiply,
  • set on,
  • infuriating,
  • cut,
  • sour,
  • rouse,
  • nudzh,
  • overestimate,
  • burn,
  • inflate,
  • enhance,
  • Endamage,
  • resentment,
  • inconvenience,
  • add insult to injury,
  • outrage,
  • overlay,
  • beset,
  • distemper,
  • get goat,
  • amplify,
  • devil,
  • give a hard time,
  • insult,
  • outrageous,
  • harm,
  • degeneracy,
  • make trouble,
  • offend,
  • ruffle,
  • stir up,
  • irksomely,
  • annoying,
  • provokingly,
  • acerbate,
  • pervert,
  • grate on,
  • hot up,
  • madden,
  • snowball,
  • rise,
  • annoyingly,
  • deteriorate,
  • accelerate,
  • burn up,
  • rub the wrong way,
  • escalate,
  • Vexatiously,
  • aggravation,
  • double,
  • aggrandizement,
  • gall,
  • infuriatingly,
  • overdraw,
  • make worse,
  • mount,
  • spite,
  • Superadd,
  • affront,
  • bristle,
  • estrange,
  • ire,
  • bug,
  • dog,
  • derogatory,
  • raise,
  • Untowardly,
  • quicken,
  • add to,
  • cranky,
  • incommode,
  • enlarge,
  • cut to the quick,
  • uneasily,
  • work up,
  • get,
  • put out,
  • bitter,
  • Suscitate,
  • wrath,
  • burdensomely,
  • violent,
  • exalt,
  • pother,
  • raw,
  • annoy,
  • hound,
  • set at odds,
  • gratingly,
  • fester,
  • concentrate,
  • annoyance,
  • peevishly,
  • plague,
  • magnify,
  • hack,
  • strengthen,
  • gripe,
  • get to,
  • agitate,
  • worry,
  • ramify,
  • incense,
  • overpraise,
  • mortify,
  • chivy,
  • consolidate,
  • separate,
  • excite,
  • hector,
  • set against,
  • provocation,
  • deterioration,
  • stretch,
  • worsened,
  • rage,
  • pile up,
  • maddeningly,
  • provoke,
  • Fash,
  • rabid,
  • harassment,
  • Irksome,
  • persecute,
  • nettle,
  • accent,
  • anger,
  • disaffect,
  • deepen,
  • embitter,
  • provoking,
  • tiresomely,
  • disperse,
  • aggrandize,
  • grow worse,
  • injure,
  • nauseatingly,
  • intensify,
  • nark,
  • accentuation,
  • get under skin,
  • strengthening,
  • frustrate,
  • rile,
  • overstate,
  • bothersome,
  • aggravatingly,
  • strain,
  • hurt,
  • displease,
  • fan,
  • wound,
  • abominable,
  • boost,
  • discourage,
  • dilapidate,
  • alienate,
  • condense,
  • incite,
  • pain,
  • pestilential,
  • alter,
  • pick,
  • convulse,
  • complicate,
  • give up,
  • urge,
  • huff,
  • feelings,
  • wig,
  • divide,
  • sting.

Antonyms for Aggravate:

• v.

  • annoy
    calm, soothe, improve, delight, help, please, gladden, appease, make happy, relieve, soften, mollify, aid, alleviate.
  • cause to become worse
    lower, reduce, weaken, decrease, play down, decline, slump, drop, minimize, fall.
  • change
    better.
  • Other antonyms:
    delight, honor, ease, solace, quiet, oblige, help, comfort, content, cheer, console.

Homophones for Aggravate:

• acervate, acrobat, aggravated, acerbity, acre-foot, acerbate.