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Oppressive vs Burdenous - What's the difference?

oppressive | burdenous |

As adjectives the difference between oppressive and burdenous

is that oppressive is burdensome or difficult to bear while burdenous is (obsolete) heavy; oppressive.

oppressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Burdensome or difficult to bear.
    • The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company.
  • Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
    • The oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers.
  • Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
    • Will the oppressive heat of summer never end?

    Synonyms

    * (weather) humid, close

    burdenous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Heavy; oppressive.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.12:
  • *:But still the tyrant sternely at him layd, / And did his yron axe so nimbly wield, / That many wounds into his flesh it made, / And with his burdenous blowes him sore did ouerlade.