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Definition of Irksome
1. Adjective. So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. "Other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
Similar to: Uninteresting
Derivative terms: Boringness, Dullness, Tediousness, Tedium, Tedium, Tiresomeness
Definition of Irksome
1. a. Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.
Definition of Irksome
1. Adjective. Disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; bothersome; annoying; irritating; wearisome; tedious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Irksome
1. tending to irk [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irksome
Literary usage of Irksome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"However, if any do incur the debt of a second repentance, his spirit is not to
be forthwith cut down and undermined by despair. Let it be irksome to sin ..."
2. Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third by Horace Walpole (1894)
"CHAPTER XIII irksome Position of the Ministers.—Debate on Five Resolutions ...
THE situation of the Ministers became every day more irksome and precarious. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"Mere memorizing becomes more and more irksome and difficult with age, while the
youthful mind has been well characterized potamus, rhinoceros, ..."
4. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"... the mass of mankind in civilized societies, and that which brings the largest
product, is mainly of the continuous, monotonous, and irksome kind. ..."
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