irksomeness
21tedium — /tee dee euhm/, n. the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness. [1655 65; < L taedium] Syn. monotony, sameness, dullness. * * * …
22irksome — adjective /ˈɚksəm/ Disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; bothersome; annoying; irritating; wearisome; tedious. He has this irksome habit of racing up to red lights, so he has to brake heavily. See …
23aggravation — Synonyms and related words: accelerando, acceleration, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, agitation, animation, annoyance, annoyingness, arousal, arousing, bad news, bedevilment, beefing up, blight, blowing up, blowup, bore, bother,… …
24annoyance — Synonyms and related words: ado, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, amplification, anger, annoyingness, anxiety, augmentation, aversion, bad news, bedevilment, besetment, blight, bore, bother, botheration, bothering,… …
25beaten path — Synonyms and related words: alameda, beat, beaten track, berm, bicycle path, boardwalk, bridle path, broken record, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, catwalk, chinoiserie, daily grind, esplanade, fastwalk, foot pavement, footpath, footway, garden path …
26dullness — Synonyms and related words: abruptness, absence of color, acedia, achromaticity, achromatism, adynamia, aloofness, analgesia, anemia, anesthesia, angst, anguish, anxiety, apathy, aridity, aridness, ashiness, asininity, ataraxia, ataraxy, atony,… …
27exasperation — Synonyms and related words: aggravation, agitation, amplification, animation, annoyance, annoyingness, arousal, arousing, augmentation, bad news, bedevilment, besetment, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, contentiousness, crashing bore,… …
28harassment — Synonyms and related words: McCarthyism, aggravation, annoyance, annoyingness, bad news, bedevilment, bore, bother, botheration, bothering, bothersomeness, crashing bore, devilment, difficulty, disturbance, dogging, downer, drag, exasperation,… …
29humdrum — Synonyms and related words: alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, assonance, assonant, banal, banausic, belabored, blah, bore, boring, broken record, broken record, buttonholer, chanting, chime, chiming, cliche ridden, common, commonplace,… …
30monotony — Synonyms and related words: AF, alliteration, assonance, audio frequency, boredom, broken record, ceaselessness, chime, clockwork regularity, consecutiveness, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuity, continuousness, daily round,… …
