Complete Definition of "burdensome"

English
Adjective
burdensome

  1. of, or like a burden; arduous, demanding, onerous or exacting

#* 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 6.
#*: reap a pleasure from what, to the generality of mankind, may seem burdensome and laborious.

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Finnish: raskas, rasittava
Portuguese: t-|pt|exigente

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