Dictionary Entry
irksome
irksome is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.
- 2adjective
Weary; vexed; uneasy.
- 3adjective
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness- Edmund Burke- Mark Twain
"a boring evening with uninteresting people"
"the deadening effect of some routine tasks"
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