Irk

/ɜːk/

Synonyms for "irk" (167 found)

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Closest matches (34)

abrade afflict aggravate ail anger annoy badger baitbe atbe infinitely repetitivebe tediousbe the matterbeaten pathbedevil beset blistering bother bristlebrown offbug

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bullyragburn upchafe chivycomplicate matters

Noun(3 words)

aggrieving bothering chagrins

Verb(6 words)

agitate annoy annoyed annoys bother bugged

Strong matches (50)

concern devil discomfit discommode discompose discourage displease distemper distress disturb dogdrag ondrive up the wallexasperate exercise fash fatigue fret gall get

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glut gnawgo on forevergrate gripe harass harry heckle hector hound humdrum incommode inconvenience

Noun(3 words)

discommoding fray galls

Verb(10 words)

disgruntle disgruntles displeases exasperate frustrate frustrates gall galled grated hump

Adjective(4 words)

exasperated frustrating galling incensed

Related words (83)

infuriate jade madden miff molest monotony nag needle nettle nudzh pain pall peeve perplex persecute perturb pester pickpick onpique

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plaguepluck the beardpother prod provokeput output to itpuzzle rankle rasp ride rile roil rub ruffle sameness satiatesquirrel cagestrain stress tease tiretire to deathtorment treadmill trouble trytry the patiencetweak the nosevex wearwear onweary worry

Verb(14 words)

irritate irritates needled nettled peeved piqued pisses provoke rankle rankled rankles rankling rubbed vex

Adjective(2 words)

irritated irritating

Noun(13 words)

jangle jangles narked narking nettles niggle peeves peeving piquing provoking rubs snit spite

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

2 entries

angeremotional verb

More specific

7 entries

gall nag peeve perturb pester rankle rile

Collocations

6 entries

irksome delayirksome detailirksome habitirksome issueirksome reminderirksome task

Inflections

3 entries

irked irking irks

Derivations

1 entries

irksome

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It was a pleasure to meet you Stella, I am so sorry for whatever I said to irk you the wrong way.

Source: tatoeba (440969)

It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.

Source: wiktionary

Let no man pray to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, for who shall trouble Māna with mortal woes or irk him with the sorrows of all the houses of Earth?

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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