nagging

adjective

1. 1

   Persistently annoying or painful.

   nagging doubt

   nagging pain

   nagging woman

   Eventually he had learned to live with it, but he always had a nagging suspicion that he had not been good enough for his mother.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of nagpresent participle and gerund of nag

noun

1. 1

   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[…]

adjective

1. 1

   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 into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.

Forms

plural

naggings

comparative

more nagging

superlative

most nagging