Burden Synonyms and Antonyms

bûrdn
The thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. meaning
  2. aim
  3. drift
  4. intent
  5. purport
  6. substance
  7. tendency
  8. tenor
  9. thrust
Something carried
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. load
  2. freight
  3. cargo
  4. weight
  5. haul
  6. pack
  7. impost
  8. chargeability
  9. impeachability
  10. indictability
  11. loading
  12. trailerload
  13. vanload
  14. trainload
Antonyms:
  1. relief
  2. help
  3. aid
The general sense or significance, as of an action or statement
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. amount
  2. drift
  3. import
  4. purport
  5. substance
  6. tenor
Something hard to bear physically or emotionally
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. affliction
  2. cross
  3. trial
  4. tribulation
  5. albatross
  6. millstone
Anything hard to support or endure
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. obligation
  2. encumbrance
  3. duty
  4. onus
  5. responsibility
  6. impediment
  7. millstone
  8. imposition
  9. load
  10. weight
  11. trial
  12. trouble
  13. thorn-in-the-flesh
  14. charge
  15. weary load
  16. commitment
  17. heavy load
  18. albatross
  19. cargo
  20. chorus
  21. albatross-around-one-s-neck
  22. imperative
  23. cross to bear
  24. handicap
  25. hindrance
  26. effect
  27. must
  28. inconvenience
  29. incubus
  30. hardship
  31. infliction
  32. need
  33. strain
  34. essence
  35. obstacle
  36. onus-probandi
  37. oppression
  38. perplexity
  39. refrain
  40. task
  41. core
  42. incumbrance
  43. gist
A duty or responsibility that is a source of anxiety, worry, or hardship
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. millstone
  2. onus
  3. tax
  4. weight
  5. headache

Words Related to Burden

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Burden Sentence Examples

  • You don't carry this burden alone.

  • I'm sorry I have become a burden to you.

  • I don't want to be a burden to you or our family anymore.

  • Don't ever say you're a burden again.

  • There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.

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