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irksome

[ urk-suhm ]

adjective

  1. annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome:

    irksome restrictions.

  2. Obsolete. causing weariness or disgust.


irksome

/ ˈɜːksəm /

adjective

  1. causing vexation, annoyance, or boredom; troublesome or tedious
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈirksomely, adverb
  • ˈirksomeness, noun
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Other Words From

  • irksome·ly adverb
  • irksome·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of irksome1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; irk, -some 1
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Example Sentences

I generally prefer synthetic leather ear cup padding, as it’s less scratchy, but the fabric doesn’t only start to feel irksome when you’re sitting in a hot room, which is better than most.

The idea that planets have to clear their orbits is particularly irksome, he says.

That irksome window you can’t open because it has a ripped screen.

However, there’s a difference between constructive complaining and irksome needling.

From Ozy

As a male human resources leader, I find this statement irksome.

From Quartz

Her borderline apologetic view is, frankly, a bit irksome, though not wholly unexpected based on Transmormon.

But there is actually something more irksome than exploiting cancer for profits.

For more than decade, flying has been made irksome rather than pleasurable by an ever-increasing fortress culture at airports.

For most New Yorkers, there are few things as irksome as strangers accosting you on the street.

Even more irksome than the aphorisms is the obviousness of the advice.

They had no power of attention even to a story, and the stillness was irksome to such wild colts.

They are as impertinent as those people who stop you only to bore you; but the former are perhaps less irksome.

There is a boundary even to human patience; and now, after many days, Max Bray began to find his position very irksome.

Their harness is not apparently irksome to them, and is not so heavy as one sees on the Portuguese oxen, for instance.

It then grew very irksome to him to bear his irons, and he rarely went out to walk.

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