nagging

Speech parts

1. nagging - Noun

2. nagging - Adjective

3. nagging - Verb

Derived from nag

5. nagging - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Nag

Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

shrewish badger harry plague hound faulting niggle pesky critical continuous trouble demanding persistent critique painful
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Antonyms

easy accepting praising pleasing conciliatory discouraging
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Phrases with the word

subjected to nagging

Anagrams

ganging

Examples

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts. Bill Watterson

When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men? Phyllis Schlafly

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong. Pieter Willem Botha

For as long as he could remember, he'd suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there. Douglas Adams

His conscience must have gotten tired of nagging him and delivered an ultimatum. Poul Anderson

What I believe is that we're only just beginning to understand the incredible capacity of human beings, that we can become something unrecognizable, that we can have true freedom, not some tantalizing emblem forever out of reach. Not weary compromise and nagging fear. Russell Brand

Close letter words and terms

nagged nagger naggin naggingly naggingness naggish