- 1討人厭的、惱人的（偏書面；口語較常說「很煩」）
Something irksome is — not a sudden shock, but a small bother that keeps going. A tap that drips, a form you must fill in twice, a person who corrects every little word: those can all feel irksome. You sigh at them more than you shout. The word is a little old, and you meet it more in writing than in chat. In everyday talk most people just say , irritating, or “it gets on my nerves.” It is milder than furious. You can call a job irksome, a rule irksome, or someone’s habit irksome. Calling a person irksome is possible, but it sounds rather stiff; people more often name the thing they do.
組成From Middle English irkesome / irksum: irk (to annoy, to weary) + -some (causing that feeling). It may also continue, in a changed form, Old English weorcsum, “painful, hurtful.”
同家族的字
- irkthe older verb meaning to annoy, which this adjective is built from
- tiresomesame -some ending: causing that feeling
- burdensomesame -some ending
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
irksomeadj/ˈɜɹksəm/
- 1
Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition
- He has this irksome habit of racing up to red lights, so he has to brake heavily.
- The young Spaniard had been in many situations of greater difficulty, but in none more irksome.
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