Burdensome vs Depressing - What's the difference?
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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:
Causing depression or sadness.
As adjectives the difference between burdensome and depressing
is that burdensome is of or like a burden; arduous or demanding while depressing is causing depression or sadness.As a verb depressing is
present participle of lang=en.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, taxingdepressing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The television news was depressing , so rather than start crying I turned it off.