IRKSOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irksome mean? 

• IRKSOME (adjective)
  The adjective IRKSOME has 1 sense:

1. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

  Familiarity information: IRKSOME used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRKSOME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

Synonyms:

boring; deadening; dull; ho-hum; irksome; slow; tedious; tiresome; wearisome

Context example:

other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome

Similar:

uninteresting (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement)

 Context examples 

To write diary with a pen is irksome to me; but Van Helsing says I must.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In this manner I distributed my occupations when I first arrived, but as I proceeded in my labour, it became every day more horrible and irksome to me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My present state is miserably irksome.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But it is the tobacco which I find most irksome.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will send her, then, as soon as possible, Mr. Brocklehurst; for, I assure you, I feel anxious to be relieved of a responsibility that was becoming too irksome.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Why, then, does he make these long journeys, which must be exceedingly irksome to him, and who is it that he visits?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was confined for some days to the house; but never had any confinement been less irksome.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Society is becoming irksome; and as for the amusements in which you were wont to share at Bath, the very idea of them without her is abhorrent.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)