Burdensome vs Bewildering - What's the difference?
burdensome | bewildering | Related terms |
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:
Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available.
bewilderment
* (Herman Melville), Pierre
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
.As a noun bewildering is
bewilderment.burdensome
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- . . . 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, taxingbewildering
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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?