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BURDENSOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does burdensome mean?
• BURDENSOME (adjective)
The adjective BURDENSOME has 1 sense:
1. not easily borne; wearing
Familiarity information: BURDENSOME used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not easily borne; wearing
Synonyms:
Context example:
a taxing schedule
Similar:
heavy (marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness)
Derivation:
burdensomeness (unwelcome burdensome difficulty)
Context examples
He glanced about the room, and the thought of packing was burdensome.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Because I was poor, and burdensome, and she disliked me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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