Definitions for: Irksome


[adj] 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
--Milton.

2. Weary; vexed; uneasy. [Obs.]

Let us therefore learn not to be irksome when God
layeth his cross upon us. --Latimer.

Syn: Wearisome; tedious; tiresome; vexatious; burdensome.

Usage: Irksome, Wearisome, Tedious. These epithets
describe things which give pain or disgust. Irksome is
applied to something which disgusts by its nature or
quality; as, an irksome task. Wearisome denotes that
which wearies or wears us out by severe labor; as,
wearisome employment. Tedious is applied to something
which tires us out by the length of time occupied in
its performance; as, a tedious speech.

Wearisome nights are appointed to me. --Job vii.
3.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, But with the
tedious sight of woes decays. --Dryden.
-- Irk"some*ly, adv. -- Irk"some*ness, n.

Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, slow, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, wearisome

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