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adjective

Irksome adj.

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."

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Irksome" Quotes from Famous Books

... The conversation had become irksome to him; but some person at the table took the last word from Olympia's ...

— The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals • Ann S. Stephens

... then come to this, that there are men, say a class of men, whose daily work, though maybe they cannot escape from doing it, is chiefly pleasure to them; and other classes of men whose daily work is wholly irksome to them, and only endurable because they hope while they are about it to earn thereby a little leisure at ...

— Hopes and Fears for Art • William Morris

... have already secured partners at the Retreta and elsewhere, and as at all respectable gatherings in Cuba everybody is supposed to know everybody else, the irksome formalities of ...

— The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba • Walter Goodman

... I would no longer be held near the house by the task of keeping alight the smoking kettles of dried fungus, designed to ward off the insects, but at the same time had disappeared many of the enticements which in summer oft made this duty irksome. The partridges were almost the sole birds remaining in the bleak woods, and, much as their curious ways of hiding in the snow, and the resounding thunder of their strange drumming, mystified and attracted me, I was not alert enough ...

— In the Valley • Harold Frederic

... to a correspondent he apologized for not sooner replying, and pleaded "debilitated health, occasioned by the fever wch. deprived me of 20 lbs. of the weight I had when you and I were at Troy Mills Scales, and rendered writing irksome." ...

— The True George Washington [10th Ed.] • Paul Leicester Ford

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