Burdensome vs Large - What's the difference?
burdensome | large | 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:
Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
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(obsolete) Abundant; ample.
* Milton
(archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
* Felton
(obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
* Fairfax
(obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
* Shakespeare
(nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.
(music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
(obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
A thousand dollars.
As adjectives the difference between burdensome and large
is that burdensome is of or like a burden; arduous or demanding while large is of considerable or relatively great size or extent.As a noun large is
an old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.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, taxinglarge
English
Adjective
(er)- We have yet large day.
- I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.
- Of burdens all he set the Paynims large .
- Some large jests he will make.
Synonyms
(checksyns) * big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous, stour, great, mickle, largeish * See alsoAntonyms
* small, tiny, minusculeDerived terms
* as large as life, larger than life * by and large * enlarge * give it large * have it large * large it, large up, large it up * largely * largeness * writ large * largishNoun
- Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large .