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Irksome   /ˈərksəm/   Listen
adjective
Irksome  adj.  
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."
Synonyms: Wearisome; tedious; tiresome; vexatious; burdensome. 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." "Pity only on fresh objects stays, But with the tedious sight of woes decays."






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"Irksome" Quotes from Famous Books



... contented. His dearest hopes had been fulfilled; all his ambitions were satisfied; and for the rest of his life he had only to enjoy, in undisturbed decorum, his throne, his respectability, the table of precedence, and the punctual discharge of his irksome duties. But unfortunately the felicity of those who surrounded him was less complete. His Court, it was murmured, was as gloomy as a conventicle, and the most dismal of all the sufferers was his wife. "Pas de plaisanteries, madame!" he ...
— Queen Victoria • Lytton Strachey

... a far-down prospect of some sunshiny, rich, leafy, valley region, at once showing at what a bleak elevation he has been roaming so long, and tantalizing him with the contrast of that far, far off, low, luring landscape, rendering more irksome than before the dead, heathery desert, interminably undulating before, behind, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various

... satisfaction; several of our nobility honoured me with their names, and others, my patrons, were of the very first class of literature. Nevertheless, I encountered much contumelious reception; and after an irksome and unavailing perseverance of a month's continuance, I was at last compelled to relinquish ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... that I should never mention it, for I found the idea of my marrying Helen so painfully irksome that it went with me all the day, casting a shadow across our intercourse. I told myself over and over that the idea was absurd—that such a thing could never, never come to pass. She was so mere a child. I studied her face with ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various

... The stone had been slung leisurely. Before that, the boy had been brought in from his sheep-herding to be anointed king. Samuel had seen it in a vision, and not otherwise.... David found Saul's armor irksome, took up his staff, and went to the brook for good, sizable stones, just as if he had spied a wolf slavering at the herds from the ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort


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