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tiresome
Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
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  1. Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
  2. Annoying; irksome
  3. Tiring; boring; tedious
tedious
(Obsolete) Moving or progressing very slowly.
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  1. (Obsolete) Moving or progressing very slowly.
  2. Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring.
  3. Full of tedium; long or verbose and wearisome; tiresome; boring
troublesome
Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
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  1. Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
  2. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
annoying
Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
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  1. Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
  2. Causing vexation or irritation; troublesome:
  3. Irritating; vexing; bothersome
bothersome
Causing bother; annoying; troublesome; irksome
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  1. Causing bother; annoying; troublesome; irksome
galling
Vexing, humiliating
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  1. Vexing, humiliating
  2. Causing extreme irritation or chagrin; vexing:
  3. Chafing; very annoying; irritating; vexing
nettlesome
That nettles, or annoys
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  1. That nettles, or annoys
  2. Causing irritation or distress; vexatious.
plaguy
Vexatious; bothersome.
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  1. Vexatious; bothersome.
  2. Causing annoyance or bother, irritating
  3. (Informal, Dial.) Annoying; vexatious; disagreeable
provoking
Troubling the nerves or peace of mind, as by repeated vexations:
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  1. Troubling the nerves or peace of mind, as by repeated vexations:
  2. That provokes; esp., annoying or vexing
troublesome
Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
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  1. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
  2. Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
vexatious
Causing or creating vexation; annoying:
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  1. Causing or creating vexation; annoying:
  2. (Law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
  3. Characterized by or causing vexation; annoying, troublesome, etc.
boring
For making holes
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  1. For making holes
  2. Uninteresting and tiresome; dull.
  3. Dull, tiresome, etc.
drear
(Poetic) Dreary.
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  1. (Poetic) Dreary.
  2. Dreary.
  3. (Old Poet.) Dreary; melancholy
dreary
Dismal; bleak.
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  1. Dismal; bleak.
  2. Boring; dull:
  3. Gloomy; cheerless; depressing; dismal; dull
dry
Constructed without mortar or cement:
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  1. Constructed without mortar or cement:
  2. No longer yielding liquid, especially milk:
  3. Not shedding tears:
dull
Not intensely or keenly felt:
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  1. Not intensely or keenly felt:
  2. Gloomy; cloudy
  3. Not clear or resonant:
humdrum
Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
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  1. Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
monotonous
Sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone:
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  1. Sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone:
  2. Going on in the same tone without variation
  3. Having an unvarying tone or pitch
stuffy
Dull and boring:
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  1. Dull and boring:
  2. Poorly ventilated; having little fresh air; close
  3. Having the nasal passages stopped up, as from a cold
tedious
Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring.
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  1. Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring.
  2. (Obsolete) Moving or progressing very slowly.
  3. Full of tedium; long or verbose and wearisome; tiresome; boring
tiresome
Annoying; irksome
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  1. Annoying; irksome
  2. Causing fatigue or boredom, as from being unvarying or overly long; wearisome.
  3. Tiring; boring; tedious
uninteresting
Lacking interest; dull; tedious
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  1. Lacking interest; dull; tedious
  2. Arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful.
weariful
That makes weary; tiresome
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  1. That makes weary; tiresome
  2. Causing weariness; tedious.
  3. Very weary; exhausted
wearisome
Causing physical or mental fatigue; tedious or tiresome.
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  1. Causing physical or mental fatigue; tedious or tiresome.
  2. Causing weariness; tiring, tiresome, or tedious
  3. Tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.
weary
Tiring
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  1. Tiring
  2. Without further liking, patience, tolerance, zeal, etc.; bored
  3. Tired; worn out
Find another word for irksome. In this page you can discover 29 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for irksome, like: tiresome, tedious, troublesome, disturbing, annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, plaguy and provoking.

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  • It seemed to Daniel irksome and improper to be in a room at all, but to have anything to do with a young lady seemed to him impossible.

  • Many an irksome noise, go a long way off, is heard as music, a proud, sweet satire on the meanness of our lives.

  • It is irksome because the process is so slow, and they cannot read what they have written or correct their mistakes.

  • Then it is excessively irksome to a sensitive man to be attended by women for various necessary offices.

  • It is in proportion as a sedentary life prevails, and agricultural exploitation is practised on a larger scale, whilst warlike habits continue to exist, that the labour of slaves is increasingly introduced to provide food for the master, and at the same time save him from irksome toil.

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