Irk
/ɜːk/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An annoyance.
"The trade-off between computation cost and precision results in tuning parameters […] being exposed to the user, a major irk to practitioners of data science."
Verb
- 1 to irritate; annoy; bother transitive
"It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it."
- 2 irritate or vex wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Irwell in Manchester city centre.
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"It was a pleasure to meet you Stella, I am so sorry for whatever I said to irk you the wrong way."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English irken (“to tire, grow weary”), from Old Norse yrkja (“to work”), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Icelandic yrkja (“to compose”), Swedish yrka (“to urge, argue”), Old English wyrċan (“to work”). Doublet of work.