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Burdensome vs Bewildering - What's the difference?

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Burdensome is a related term of bewildering.


As adjectives the difference between burdensome and bewildering

is that burdensome is of or like a burden; arduous or demanding while bewildering is very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available.

As a verb bewildering is

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As a noun bewildering is

bewilderment.

burdensome

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or like a burden; arduous or demanding
  • * 1748 , , Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals , London: Oxford University Press (1973 ed.), ยง 6:
  • . . . reap a pleasure from what, to the generality of mankind, may seem burdensome and laborious.

    Synonyms

    * (of or like a burden) arduous, demanding, exacting, onerous, taxing

    bewildering

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available.
  • There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • bewilderment
  • * (Herman Melville), Pierre
  • Then the bewilderings of the comings and the goings of the coffins at the large and populous house; these bewilderings came over me. What was it to be dead? What is it to be living?