nagging
Persistently annoying or painful.
Adjective
- Persistently annoying or painful.
- nagging doubt
- nagging pain
- nagging woman
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Adjective Entry 2
- Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.
- Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations...
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Noun
- The action of the verb nag.
- After breakfast it takes a stout heart and strong nerve to tackle the burden of dishwashing, separator, milk things, disorderly house, interspersed with quarrels, naggings, and interruptions of the children[…] - 1998,...
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Verb
- present participle and gerund of nag