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burdensome

adj
/ˈbɜː.dən.səm/UK/ˈbɝ.dən.səm/CA/ˈbɜː.dən.səm/

Etymology

From burden + -some.

  1. derived from *bʰer-✻ — “to carry, bear”
  2. inherited from *burþį̄✻
  3. derived from *burþini✻
  4. inherited from byrden
  5. inherited from burden
  6. suffixed as burdensome — “burden + some”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of a burden

    Characteristic of a burden; arduous or demanding

    • . . . reap a pleasure from what, to the generality of mankind, may seem burdensome and laborious.
    • Finally, there are the commuter trains. Both companies operate these around the big cities and both find them burdensome, owing to the lack of off-peak travel.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at burdensome. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at burdensome. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at burdensome

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA