NAGGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nagging mean? 

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

1. continually complaining or faultfinding

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAGGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Continually complaining or faultfinding

Synonyms:

nagging; shrewish

Context example:

nagging parents

Similar:

ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)

 Context examples 

Dangers to ancient Antarctic ice portend a future of rapidly rising seas, but a new study may relieve one nagging fear.

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Check Yes or No if the adjective applies to your pain; nagging.

(BPI - Nagging, NCI Thesaurus)

Martin knew this and suffered more keenly from it than from the open and nagging contempt of Bernard Higginbotham.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The resulting tangle was even worse, but Buck took good care to keep the traces clear thereafter; and ere the day was done, so well had he mastered his work, his mates about ceased nagging him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was the hard work, the many children, and the nagging of her husband, he decided, that had changed her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He extracted great happiness from squelching her, and she squelched easily these days, though it had been different in the first years of their married life, before the brood of children and his incessant nagging had sapped her energy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)