irksome

irksome
    adj 1: 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" [syn: {boring}, {deadening}, {dull}, {ho-hum},
           {irksome}, {slow}, {tedious}, {tiresome}, {wearisome}]
    

Irksome \Irk"some\, a.
   1. Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason
      of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours;
      irksome tasks.
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            For not to irksome toil, but to delight,
            He made us.                           --Milton.
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   2. Weary; vexed; uneasy. [Obs.]
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            Let us therefore learn not to be irksome when God
            layeth his cross upon us.             --Latimer.

   Syn: Wearisome; tedious; tiresome; vexatious; burdensome.

   Usage: {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.
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                Wearisome nights are appointed to me. --Job vii.
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                Pity only on fresh objects stays,
                But with the tedious sight of woes decays.
                                                  --Dryden.
          -- {Irk"some*ly}, adv. -- {Irk"some*ness}, n.
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61 Moby Thesaurus words for "irksome":
      aggravating, annoying, backbreaking, besetting, boresome, boring,
      bothering, bothersome, burdensome, chafing, crushing, disturbing,
      drudging, dull, exasperating, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing,
      galling, grueling, harassing, heavy, hefty, importunate, importune,
      irking, irritating, nettling, onerous, oppressive, painful, pesky,
      pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome,
      plaguey, plaguing, provoking, stupefyingly boring, stupid,
      stuporific, teasing, tedious, tiresome, tiring, tormenting,
      troublesome, troubling, trying, uninteresting, vexatious, vexing,
      weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, worrisome, worrying,
      yawny