'Nagging' definitions:
Definition of 'nagging'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents" [syn: shrewish, nagging]
Definition of 'Nagging'
From: GCIDE
- Nagging \Nag"ging\ (n[a^]g"g[i^]ng), a. Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nagging'
From: GCIDE
- Nag \Nag\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Nagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Nagging.] [Cf. Sw. nagga to nibble, peck, Dan. nage to gnaw, Icel. naga, gnaga, G. nagen, & E. gnaw.] To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously. [Colloq.] "She never nagged." --J. Ingelow. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nagging'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- blandishment,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- catty,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chronic,
- coaxing,
- continual,
- continuous,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- demanding,
- distressing,
- dunning,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- flak,
- fretful,
- hairsplitting,
- haunting,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- imputation,
- indelible,
- insistent,
- knock,
- naggy,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- obsessive,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- peevish,
- persistent,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- priggishness,
- querulous,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- reflection,
- relentless,
- reproachfulness,
- resentful,
- shrewish,
- slam,
- stricture,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- teasing,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- ultracritical,
- unforgettable,
- unrelenting,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vixenish,
- vixenly,
- wheedling