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Irksome vs Importunate - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between irksome and importunate

is that irksome is disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; bothersome; annoying; irritating; wearisome; tedious while importunate is of a demand: persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.

As a verb importunate is

to importune, or to obtain by importunity.

irksome

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.

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    importunate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a demand: persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.
  • Of a person: given to importunate demands, greedily or thoughtlessly demanding.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (importunat)
  • (rare) To importune, or to obtain by importunity.
  • * 1581 June 23, Thomas Churchyard, letter to Sir Christopher Hatton, in Sir Harris Nicolas (editor), Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton, K.G. , Richard Bentley (publisher, 1847), page 173:
  • All which notwithstanding, I obtained licence at length to make my supplication to the noble Parliament house; but I could find no messengers till Sir John Seton went, whom I importunated daily to obtain me favor for my return home again.
  • * 1847 December 18, N. Roussel, “Spiritual Destitution of Paris.—Appeal to British Christians”, in Evangelical Christendom: Its State and Prospects , Volume II (1848), Partridge and Oakey, page 43:
  • Is my work ended? The fear of importunating my friends answers, “Yes.”
  • * 1910 July, David Leslie Brown, “The Need of To-day”, in , Volume 25, Southern Pacific Company, reverse of frontispiece:
  • It is the concrete that impresses, that importunates until it influences—in writing as in everything else.

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