[ UK /bˈɜːdənsˌʌm/ ]
[ US /ˈbɝdənsəm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not easily borne; wearing
    my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests
    a taxing schedule
    the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return
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How To Use burdensome In A Sentence

  • It was the least encumbered of all the tenures with obsolete and burdensome features, reminiscent of an older day, when land-holding involved public rights and duties as well as private rights of ownership.
  • Alternatively, you've stuck with increasingly burdensome friendships or relationships. Times, Sunday Times
  • Early retirement rules apply in other particularly burdensome professions.
  • While a system of barracks relieved the villagers of having to lodge the dragoons in their houses, the obligation to transport provisions using their own animals at times when they were needed in the fields was burdensome.
  • We wouldn't be trying to run or control the charities, just to do everything we could to make their own task less burdensome. "
  • These charges are particularly burdensome for poor parents.
  • Strategically located naval bases capable of berthing the carriers would also have to be constructed, adding to the already burdensome bill.
  • Canadian sanitary and technical regulations, such as differences in foodstuff standards, burdensome inspection and authorization procedures by the Canadian Food and Inspection Agency (CFIA), labelling and packaging requirements, or the lack of transparency and international harmonization of technical and safety standards; The EU and Canada: Partners that Matter
  • Many firms in France and Germany already find the cost of employment extremely burdensome.
  • A text is far easier, quicker, less burdensome. Times, Sunday Times
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