irksome

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɜɹksəm/
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/ˈɜɹksəm/ · /ˈɜːksəm/

Definition of irksome

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition
    “He has this irksome habit of racing up to red lights, so he has to brake heavily.”
    “The young Spaniard had been in many situations of greater difficulty, but in none more irksome.”
    “But winter can also be judged by the prominence of another scourge, one that is especially irksome in a city that places a premium on being well-groomed and immaculately coiffed: hat hair.”
    “Like the irksome climate-change satire Don’t Look Up, directed by Succession executive producer Adam McKay, the exaggerated hijinks of Mountainhead reveal a deep self-assurance of its politics that border on smug.”

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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”).

Anagrams of irksome

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