Unpleasant vs Burdensome - What's the difference?

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Unpleasant is a related term of burdensome.

As adjectives the difference between unpleasant and burdensome

is that unpleasant is not pleasant while burdensome is of or like a burden; arduous or demanding.

unpleasant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not pleasant.

Derived terms

* unpleasantness * late unpleasantness

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