burdensome
adjective
oppressively heavy; onerous.
burdensomeness
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a word derived from
burdensome.
Example Sentences
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Patients are asked about living conditions, isolation, and feelings of burdensomeness to others.
From Slate ● May 20, 2024
This latter country is breaking all modern records, civilized or uncivilized, in the burdensomeness of her taxation.
From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell
Whatever one generation may decide as to the futility or burdensomeness of the home, the oncoming child will force its return.
From The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell
The burdensomeness of Moses’ law, ere it was overlaid, in later days, by Rabbinical scrupulosity, has been much exaggerated.
From Discipline and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley
And so the unwholesome relation wore on, with aggravating burdensomeness, to the inevitable crisis.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
