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Synonyms for irksome
ˈɜrk səmirk·some
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Princeton's WordNet
boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisomeadjective
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"
Synonyms:
dull, dim, windy, wearisome, wordy, dense, muted, boring, verbose, dumb, leaden, tedious, slow, sluggish, obtuse, deadening, tiresome, muffled, ho-hum, long-winded, thudding, softenedAntonyms:
interesting
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List of paraphrases for "irksome":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2901 | slow | |
#8356 | boring | |
#9389 | dim | |
#9564 | dumb | |
#9770 | dense | |
#13293 | dull | |
#16762 | windy | |
#20706 | tedious | |
#22081 | verbose | |
#23970 | irritating | |
#29806 | sluggish | |
#32570 | softened | |
#32598 | muted | |
#44697 | irritant | |
#48971 | tiresome | |
#49055 | muffled | |
#56643 | obtuse | |
#70981 | wordy | |
#91829 | leaden | |
#107606 | deadening | |
#109623 | irksome | |
#129314 | wearisome | |
#207170 | thudding |
How to use irksome in a sentence?
No vice is more irksome than that of voicing one's virtues
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
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