英语词汇aggravating的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	aggravating
词源	aggravating adj. 1670s, "making worse or more heinous" (implied in aggravatingly), present-participle adjective from aggravate (v.). The phrase aggravating circumstances is recorded from 1790. The weakened sense of "provoking, annoying" is by 1775. An earlier adjective in the sense "troublesome, causing difficulty" was Middle English aggravaunt (mid-15c.) Entries linking to aggravating aggravate v. 1520s, "make heavy, burden down," from Latin aggravatus, past participle of aggravare "to render more troublesome," literally "to make heavy or heavier, add to the weight of," from ad "to" (see ad-) + gravare "weigh down," from gravis "heavy" (from PIE root *gwere- (1) "heavy"). The literal sense in English has become obsolete; the meaning "to make a bad thing worse" is from 1590s; the colloquial sense of "exasperate, annoy" is from 1610s. The earlier English verb was aggrege "make heavier or more burdensome; make more oppressive; increase, intensify" (late 14c.), from Old French agreger. To aggravate has properly only one meaning — to make (an evil) worse or more serious. [Fowler] updated on September 15, 2022
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aggravating adj.