burdensome adj : not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule" [syn: onerous, taxing]

English

Adjective

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.

Translations

• Finnish: raskas, rasittava
• Portuguese: exigente

Herculean, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, demanding, distressing, effortful, encumbering, exacting, exhausting, exigent, forced, grievous, grinding, grueling, hampering, hard-earned, hard-fought, harsh, heavy, hefty, impedimental, impeding, impeditive, incumbent, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, lumpish, massive, onerous, operose, oppressive, overburdensome, painful, plaguey, punishing, strained, strenuous, superincumbent, taxing, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, tyrannous, unwieldy, uphill, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weighty, worrisome, worrying