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burdensome
[ bur-dn-suhm ]
adjective
- oppressively heavy; onerous.
- distressing; troublesome.
- Nautical. having a full hull form, as a merchant vessel built for capacity rather than speed.
burdensome
/ ˈbɜːdənsəm /
adjective
- hard to bear; onerous
Other Words From
- burden·some·ly adverb
- burden·some·ness noun
- non·burden·some adjective
- non·burden·some·ly adverb
- non·burden·some·ness noun
- un·burden·some adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of burdensome1
Example Sentences
Push back to March 13, and maybe the Atlanta concept would seem less burdensome.
They are also trying to put new burdensome mandates directly on traditional public schools, which many see as the country’s most important civic education.
If parts of the ad operation happen inside the device at the browser level, the data storage and processing demands will be too burdensome and possibly even discriminatory against people with limited data plans, Blanchard said.
However, British exporters will face an array of new regulatory hurdles that will make it more costly and burdensome to do business in Europe.
Finally, I discovered that MTS is required to provide discounted fares for certain disabled riders, but even seasoned doctors and service providers found the process to get discounts burdensome and confusing – and MTS rejected lots of applications.
Ergo, DAPA will cause another surge—and that future surge will likewise prove burdensome to Texas.
They'll take your jobs (never mind that you don't want to do the burdensome and humble jobs they are willing to do)!
But recently the obligations have gotten significantly more tedious and burdensome.
Besides, the new technologies would cost too much and prove burdensome to Americans.
People returning home from prison struggle to reconnect with their families, find work and adhere to burdensome parole conditions.
Nevertheless his journalistic work, like his lessons at the Conservatoire, was burdensome.
Like the Mosaic Law, under the sedulous care of the sacerdotal orders it ripened into a most burdensome ritualism.
Its cost, too, made it all the more burdensome for the poor, and the working classes could scarcely have worn it at all.
Only somewhere down below, under the surface of his life, something like a dark and burdensome secret dogged him wherever he went.
She had many duties, but did not find them burdensome, or feel the strain of domestic labor she had been warned about.
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