HARASSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harassed mean? 

• HARASSED (adjective)
  The adjective HARASSED has 1 sense:

1. troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

  Familiarity information: HARASSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARASSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

Synonyms:

annoyed; harassed; harried; pestered; vexed

Context example:

the vexed parents of an unruly teenager

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

 Context examples 

It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A subtype of delusional disorder characterized by the central delusional theme that the individual is being malevolently treated (for example, maligned, harassed, conspired against, poisoned or drugged) by another person or group.

(Persecutory Type Delusional Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

They judged it best that Lady Bertram should not be harassed by alarms which, it was to be hoped, would prove unfounded; but there was no reason why Fanny should not know the truth.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I do not know how far Sherlock Holmes took any sleep that night, but when I came down to breakfast I found him pale and harassed, his bright eyes the brighter for the dark shadows round them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, I know exactly what you will say: Friday, went to the Lower Rooms; wore my sprigged muslin robe with blue trimmings—plain black shoes—appeared to much advantage; but was strangely harassed by a queer, half-witted man, who would make me dance with him, and distressed me by his nonsense.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

One afternoon, when we were all harassed into a state of dire confusion, and Mr. Creakle was laying about him dreadfully, Tungay came in, and called out in his usual strong way: Visitors for Copperfield!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The fear of failure in these points harassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these were no trifles.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I doubted not—never doubted—that if Mr. Reed had been alive he would have treated me kindly; and now, as I sat looking at the white bed and overshadowed walls—occasionally also turning a fascinated eye towards the dimly gleaming mirror—I began to recall what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr. Reed's spirit, harassed by the wrongs of his sister's child, might quit its abode—whether in the church vault or in the unknown world of the departed—and rise before me in this chamber.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)