Crossword-Solution: IRKSOME
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Irksome | a. | Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks. |
| Irksome | a. | Weary; vexed; uneasy. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| IRKSOME | anagram | SKIMORE, SMOKIER |
We have 36 clues for the answer “IRKSOME”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Dander-raising | 1 answer |
| Really annoying | 1 answer |
| Nettling | 2 answers |
| causing vexation | 2 answers |
| Like gnats | 2 answers |
| Like a gnat | 3 answers |
| Troubling | 6 answers |
| CHILD ANNOYING | 10 answers |
| ANNOYING CHILD | 10 answers |
| ANNOYING BUZZER | 11 answers |
| Pestiferous | 20 answers |
| exasperating | 25 answers |
| tiring | 29 answers |
| inconvenient | 31 answers |
| bothersome | 31 answers |
| Vexing. | 31 answers |
| trying | 34 answers |
| inflammatory | 35 answers |
| Monotonous | 39 answers |
| Irritating | 43 answers |
| Grating | 49 answers |
| Tiresome | 50 answers |
| aggravating | 52 answers |
| Wearing | 63 answers |
| Annoying | 65 answers |
| Obnoxious | 74 answers |
| cranky | 74 answers |
| Tedious | 76 answers |
| Uninteresting | 76 answers |
| petulant | 79 answers |
| Vexatious | 79 answers |
| troublesome | 82 answers |
| Apathetic | 85 answers |
| Unpleasant | 87 answers |
| Offensive | 92 answers |
| Dull | 115 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IRKSOME (5)
Thence more at ease thir minds and somwhat rais’d By false presumptuous hope, the ranged powers Disband, and wandring, each his several way Pursues, as inclination or sad choice Leads him perplext, where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts, and entertain The irksome hours, till his great Chief return.
Throughout the length of this narrow and irksome inclined plane not a sign of life was visible on this garish afternoon.
His position is then one of the most singularly irksome, and, in every contingency, disagreeable, that a wretched mortal can possibly occupy; with seldom an alternative of good on either hand, although what presents itself to him as the worst event may very probably be the best.
She was still Methodist enough to believe that if a thing were hard and irksome, it must be good for her.
Half a dozen chairs stood about the room, straight and stiff, and so ingeniously contrived for the discomfort of the human person that they were irksome even to sight, and conveyed the ugliest possible idea of the state of society to which they could have been adapted.
Quotes with IRKSOME (3)
But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking to form itself, first of all to decide the nature of its surface, to what bodies it should turn its light, to which its dark side, without first letting the harmony of centrifugal and centripetal forces realize [*realisere*] its existence [*Existents*] and letting the rest come of itself. One must learn first to know himself bef…
The Author To Her Book Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad exposed to public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge, Where errors were not lessened (all may judge).At thy return my blushing was not small, My rambling brat (in print) should mother call. I cast thee by as one unfit for light, The visage was so irksome in my sight, Yet be…
You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else can occupy. Society is becoming irksome; and as for the amusements in which you were wont to share at Bath, the very idea of which without her is abhorrent. You would not, for instance, now go to a ball for the world. You feel that you have no longer any friend to whom you can speak with unreserve; on whose regard you can place dependence; or whose counsel, …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 42 times in crossword archives (1988–2023).