annoying, irritating, frustrating; tiresome
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Irksome Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Irksome Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Weary; vexed; uneasy.
Weary; vexed; uneasy.
(a.)
Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutWearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.
irksome
\irk"some\ (?), a.
1. wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks. for not to irksome toil, but to delight, he made us.
2. weary; vexed; uneasy. [obs.] let us therefore learn not to be irksome when god layeth his cross upon us.
Wearisome.
Adjective
1. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
(synonym) boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
(similar) uninteresting
