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- Dictionarynettle/ˈnɛtl/
noun
- 1. a herbaceous plant which has jagged leaves covered with stinging hairs.
verb
- 1. irritate or annoy (someone): "‘I was only asking,’ Jess said, nettled"
- 2. sting with nettles. archaic
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The meaning of NETTLE is any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs. How to use nettle in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Nettle.
to make someone annoyed or slightly angry: She looked up at me sharply, clearly nettled by the interruption. Synonym. annoy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
noun. any weedy plant of the temperate urticaceous genus Urtica, such as U. dioica ( stinging nettle ), having serrated leaves with stinging hairs and greenish flowers. any of various other urticaceous plants with stinging hairs or spines.
to make someone annoyed or slightly angry: She looked up at me sharply, clearly nettled by the interruption. Synonym. annoy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
If you know what a nettle is—it's a plant with stinging hairs—then you'll have no trouble remembering the verb nettle: it means to annoy, bother, irritate, or bedevil. A kid sister, a mosquito, an angry boyfriend, or a hot, muggy day: all of these are examples of things that might nettle a person.
nettle. ( ˈnɛtəl) n. 1. (Plants) any weedy plant of the temperate urticaceous genus Urtica, such as U. dioica ( stinging nettle ), having serrated leaves with stinging hairs and greenish flowers. 2. (Plants) any of various other urticaceous plants with stinging hairs or spines. 3.
Nettles are wild plants which have leaves covered with fine hairs that sting you when you touch them. The nettles stung their legs. ...numerous clumps of stinging nettles dotted across the meadow.
