Reassuring vs Burdensome - What's the difference?
reassuring | burdensome |
That reassures; causing comfort or confidence.
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reassurance
* (Mark Twain)
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:
As adjectives the difference between reassuring and burdensome
is that reassuring is that reassures; causing comfort or confidence while burdensome is of or like a burden; arduous or demanding.As a verb reassuring
is .As a noun reassuring
is reassurance.reassuring
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring . It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
- It was reassuring to be back in the regent's warm embrace.
Noun
(en noun)- Alfred trembled, and felt a great sinking inside, but he did what he could to conceal his misery, and to respond with some show of heart to the Major's kindly pettings and reassurings .
burdensome
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Adjective
(en adjective)- . . . reap a pleasure from what, to the generality of mankind, may seem burdensome and laborious.
