One way to hold this word: something small keeps picking at you and will not let go — not a blow, just a poke that comes again and again. A person who has been poked like that is vexed. Hold that picture and the phrase a vexed question makes sense too, because a question can poke at a whole of people for years.
From the word’s history
From Middle English vexed, vexede, vexit — by surface analysis, the verb vex plus -ed. The -ed ending means it has been done to you: a vexed person is a person something has vexed.
來自中古英語 vexed、vexede、vixid，構詞上就是動詞 vex（惹人心煩）加上 -ed。-ed 表示「被弄成這樣」，所以 a vexed person 就是被某件事煩到的人。這個「被煩到」的底，兩個用法都共用。
Wiktionary entry for vexed (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:861862283): From Middle English vexed, vexede, vexit, vixid, equivalent to vex + -ed.
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
vexedadj/ˈvɛkst/
- 1
annoyed, irritated or distressed
- She became more and more vexed as she struggled to cope with the demands of the job.
- He would be left in no doubt that they were annoyed. He might even go so far as to deduce that they were quite vexed.
- 2
much debated, discussed or disputed
- The question, however, as to whether rinderpest bile is capable of producing the disease in a herd innoculated with it is a very vexed one, and round this point heated controversies have been waged in other places than in Natal.
- I leave aside the vexed questions about whether one or two peploi were woven and presented to Athena during the Greater (every four years) and Lesser (every year) Panathenaic festivals […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。