burdensome
burdensome
Definition
bur·den·some (bʉrd′'n səm)
adjective
hard to bear; heavy; oppressive
bur′·den·somely adverb
burdensome
Synonyms
burdensome
modif.
burdensome
Usage Examples
Preposition: for
- cshcn: Plan will exclude is even greater burdensome for cshcn.
- patient: We are very conscious of the fact that sometimes the provision of treatment or nutrition can be over- burdensome for the patient.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: True, he did refer to the high cost of fuel which make transport costs particularly burdensome.
- find: For example, I may decide not to go to Bali both because I dislike Bali and because I find the journey burdensome.
Modifies a noun
- bureaucracy: The 1977 Decree reveals the State's hegemonic project to co-opt traditional rule into an already burdensome bureaucracy.
- regulation: They promised not to impose burdensome regulations on business.
- task: Any sensible person would think that erecting a 12ft tree is not a particularly burdensome task.
- requirement: There are burdensome requirements for those who are dealers in second-hand goods.
- procedure: Overly bureaucratic and burdensome trade procedures easily absorb the benefits from low tariffs in poor and rich countries alike.
- rule: Tax, VAT, payroll and health and safety legislation were cited among the most burdensome rules.
Modifying Another Word
- unduly: Indeed these programs were cited by some as being unduly burdensome and being the cause of slow wage growth.
- administratively: This would be the least administratively burdensome approach - except, of course, for no relief at all.
- unnecessarily: They have, however, found the 1994 requirement unnecessarily burdensome.
- overly: She argued that even more would be overly burdensome.
- excessively: However, this seems excessively burdensome for smaller collections.
- too: If your partner becomes too burdensome, mention my work and release yourself from guilt.
Used with adjective complement
- prove: This will result in a review that may prove more burdensome to the subject providers.
- seem: He also felt that the Star Chamber template had not given the whole picture thus making the exercise seem less burdensome.
- become: The whole business had become burdensome to ordinary people.
- find: Whichever the explanation, either was certain to expose Mr Revie to more of the criticism he has apparently found so burdensome.
Browse dictionary entries near burdensome
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- burden of persuasion
- burden of introducing evidence
- burden of going forward (with evidence)
- burden of evidence
- burdock
- bureau
- bureaucracy
- bureaucrat
- bureaucratese
- bureaucratize
- burette
- Burford abstention
- burg
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