Synonyms and Antonyms of galling
1
causing annoyance
- her holier-than-thou attitude is galling
abrasive, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, carking, chafing, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, irksome, irritating, maddening, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pesty, plaguey (also plaguy), rankling, rebarbative, riling, vexatious, vexing
burdensome, discomforting, displeasing, disquieting, distressing, importunate, importune, inconveniencing
angering, enraging, infuriating
brattish, bratty, mischievous, offensive, troublesome, upsetting
distractive, painful, stressful, tiresome, troubling, trying, worrisome
biting, grating, jangling, jarring, spiny, thorny
2
hard to accept or bear especially emotionally
- losing in the last round of play-offs was galling to our home team
afflicting, agonizing, bitter, cruel, excruciating, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, painful, tormenting, torturous
insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportable
appalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretched
acute, extreme, intense, piercing
