Irksome
['ɜːks(ə)m] or ['ɝksəm]
Definition
(a.) Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.
(a.) Weary; vexed; uneasy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Wearisome (in consequence of being distasteful), tiresome, TEDIOUS, wearying, weary, devoid of interest.
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Examples
- Suspense is irksome, disappointment bitter. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Labor in loneliness is irksome. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No office, no devotion, no watching was irksome to her, as it regarded him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Most of the time he was monkeying with the batteries and circuits, and devising things to make the work of telegraphy less irksome. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If she did not complain of solitude, solitude, however continued, could not be irksome to her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation, no matter how onerous, how irksome. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was irksome to sit; the current of reflection ran rapidly through her mind; to-night she was mutely excited. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My present state is miserably irksome. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome, and almost intolerable. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Why, then, does he make these long journeys, which must be exceedingly irksome to him, and who is it that he visits? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They played no blind-man's buff; they dealt not in whist; they shirked not the irksome journal, for alas! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She was confined for some days to the house; but never had any confinement been less irksome. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- You must begin life, he said: you are seventeen, and longer delay would render the necessary apprenticeship more and more irksome. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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