irksome
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Etymology
From Middle English irkesome, irksum, equivalent to irk + -some, or perhaps continuing (in altered form) From Old English weorcsum (“painful, hurtful”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: ûrk'səm, IPA(key): /ˈɜɹksəm/
Audio (General Australian); /ˈɜːksəm/: (file)
Adjective
irksome (comparative more irksome, superlative most irksome)
- Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition
- Synonyms: bothersome, annoying, irritating, wearisome, tedious
- He has this irksome habit of racing up to red lights, so he has to brake heavily.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 235:
- The young Spaniard had been in many situations of greater difficulty, but in none more irksome.
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Translations
disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; bothersome; annoying; irritating; wearisome; tedious
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