Englishvexed
adjective
1 a vexed expression crossed Louise's face:
annoyed, irritated, angry, irate, furious, incensed, inflamed, enraged, infuriated, maddened, fuming, wrathful, choleric, exasperated, piqued, irked, nettled, ill-humored, hot-tempered, testy, cross, in a bad mood, in a temper, in high dudgeon, huffy, in a huff, put out, fed up, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, frustrated, resentful;
upset, perturbed, fretted, bothered, troubled, worried, agitated, harassed, harried, flustered, distressed;
informal aggravated, peeved, miffed, miffy, mad, riled, hacked off, peed off, hot under the collar, foaming at the mouth;
British, informal browned off, cheesed off, brassed off, not best pleased, narked, eggy;
North American, informal teed off, ticked off, sore, steamed;
West Indian, informal vex;
vulgar slang pissed off;
North American, vulgar slang pissed;
literary ireful;
archaic snuffy, wrath.
▷antonyms calm, content.
2 first, there is the vexed issue of what independence means:
disputed, in dispute, contested, in contention, contentious, debated, debatable, open to debate, open to question, questionable, at issue, open to doubt, controversial, moot, unresolved, unsettled, up in the air, undecided, yet to be decided, undetermined, unconcluded, ongoing;
problematic, problematical, taxing, knotty, thorny, ticklish, delicate;
informal sticky, dicey, hairy, iffy;
British, informal dodgy.
▷antonyms undisputed, resolved.