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Burdensome vs Cumbrous - What's the difference?

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Burdensome is a related term of cumbrous.


As adjectives the difference between burdensome and cumbrous

is that burdensome is of or like a burden; arduous or demanding while cumbrous is unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.

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.), § 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

    Related terms

    * burden

    cumbrous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.
    • He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. — Swift.
    That cumbrous and unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. — De Quincey.
  • * 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , ch. 1
    • In the course of thousands of years, this cumbrous system developed into alphabetic writing.
  • (obsolete) Giving trouble; vexatious.
    • A cloud of cumbrous gnats. — Spenser.