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burdensome

[ bur-dn-suhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

oppressively heavy; onerous.
distressing; troublesome.
Nautical. having a full hull form, as a merchant vessel built for capacity rather than speed.

burdensome

/ ˈbɜːdənsəm /

First recorded in 1570–80; burden ¹ + -some ¹

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.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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