Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: irksome
IPA transcription: ['ɝksəm]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • The duties of the class president are many and irksome.
  • But these things distract me; they absorb me; they make religious duties irksome.
  • "Too arduous it shall not be--that shall be my concern; and too irksome I hope you will not find it.
  • "If we journey with the troops, though we may find their presence irksome, shall we not feel better assurance of our safety?"
  • The worker refuses to take this trouble, which, if repeated in the case of each grain, would make the action of the spinnerets too irksome.
  • In this manner I distributed my occupations when I first arrived, but as I proceeded in my labour, it became every day more horrible and irksome to me.
  • Company was irksome to me; when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heaven and earth; the voice of Henry soothed me, and I could thus cheat myself into a transitory peace.
  • It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.
  • "I am very thankful to you for the offer, sir," replied Edward, "and will accept it if you think that I am fitting for it, and if I find that I am equal to it; I can but give it a trial, and leave if I find it too arduous or too irksome."
  • She, however, still continued her devotion to religion, now and then coming to Court to see her son, where she was received with all cordiality; so that her rival, the mother of the ex-Emperor, whose influence was overwhelming till lately, now began to feel like one to whom the world had become irksome.