overburdensome
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərˈbɜrdənsəm/
- Specialized
Examples
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The GOP has given us just as much overburdensome government as the libs.
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We've gotten to this place of overburdensome regulations and and too much of the IRSI think creating law and Congress not doing their job.
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He ignored Richard Clarke's warnings, was starting to get rid of agencies that he felt were overburdensome, and was small government-minded.
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But unless Republicans address the issues of overburdensome debt on the private sector, evaporating tax receipts to government, and balance it against constraining spending, our nation's economy will inevitably collapse into a deflationary depression or uncontrollable inflationary depression depending on whether we simply monetize government spending.
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Many employees feel that the new policies are overburdensome and create unnecessary stress at work.
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The manager decided to revise the project deadlines, realizing that they were overburdensome for the team.
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Parents often find school assignments to be overburdensome, adding to their children's stress levels.
Synonyms
Hard to control or deal with, often not willing to help
Making you feel very worried or nervous
Causing worry or annoyance and hard to deal with
Very difficult to do and needing a lot of effort over a long time
Causing a lot of extra work or worry
Hard to control or deal with
Has more than it can safely hold, for example weight, work, or electricity
More complex than it needs to be
Someone who has too many planned activities and very little free time
Carrying more weight or things than it can safely hold
Antonyms
How Burdensome
- Specialized
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
overburdensome = burdensome (transparent) = over + burden + some
Productive prefixation: 'over-' added to the adjective 'burdensome' yields 'excessively burdensome' with an obvious intensifying meaning.
Etymology
Overburdensome is made of over ('too much'), burden ('a heavy load'), and the ending -some (showing 'causing'). So something overburdensome is like a load that is too heavy to carry, 'causing' too much trouble or stress and making things hard to manage.