Burdensome Synonyms and Antonyms

bûrdn-səm
Hard to achieve
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. troublesome
  2. overburdensome

Words Related to Burdensome

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.

Burdensome Sentence Examples

  • This arrangement proving financially burdensome the islands were in 1873 definitely annexed to Jamaica.

  • It is even at times a very burdensome tax, falling upon a family when its sources of income are otherwise diminished, while it has the demerit of striking a small number annually instead of being diffused equally.

  • Narrow and burdensome and useless to anyone as his life now seemed to him, Prince Andrew on the eve of battle felt agitated and irritable as he had done seven years before at Austerlitz.

  • So much of the expense of the handling, both of freight and of passengers, was independent of the length of the journey that a mileage rate sufficiently large for short distances was unnecessarily burdensome for long ones, and was bound to destroy long-distance traffic, if the theory were consistently applied.

  • Payment was rigorously enforced, and thus for a variety of reasons the taille was a burdensome and hated tax.

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