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What is the adjective for burden?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb burden which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

burdensome
  1. Characteristic of a burden; arduous or demanding
  2. Synonyms:
      3. hard, tough, onerous, trying, arduous, difficult, demanding, taxing, severe, harsh, exacting, heavy, strenuous, gruelling, rough, laborious, challenging, oppressive, tiring, exhausting, grim, rigorous, rugged, punishing, excruciating, brutal, grievous, stiff, troublesome, cruel, uphill, grueling, toilsome, wearisome, murderous, wearing, fatiguing, formidable, crushing, stressful, wearying, irksome, weighty, bitter, disturbing, vexatious, worrying, exigent, inhuman, killing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “As such the money soon evaporates into thin air and the beneficiary is now left with the more burdensome task of repaying the loan.”
      “The parents may complain that they are too fragile to deal with a child who is so burdensome.”
      “All of this creates burdensome and disorganizing levels of stress, which is a major cause of divorce and the creation of single-parent families.”
burdenless
  1. Without a burden.
burdened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of burden
  2. Synonyms:
      3. loaded, loaden, encumbered, overwhelmed, saddled, strained, trammelled, trammeled, laden, lumbered, weighted, freighted, laded, piled, charged, crushed, cumbered, hampered, handicapped, yoked, hindered, impeded, overburdened, overloaded, snowed, snew, snown, weighed down, dumped on, made heavy, snowed under, bore down on, borne down on, saddled with, worried, bothered, depressed, saddened, troubled, afflicted, beset, dejected, disturbed, harassed, taxed, upset, vexed, vext, distressed, grieved … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “She discovered herself feeling as the burdened mother, not providently for her girl, in the choice of a mate.”
burdening
  1. present participle of burden
  2. Synonyms:
      3. loading, encumbering, overwhelming, saddling, straining, trammelling, trammeling, lumbering, weighting, freighting, lading, piling, charging, crushing, cumbering, hampering, handicapping, yoking, hindering, impeding, overburdening, overloading, snowing, weighing down, dumping on, making heavy, snowing under, bearing down on, saddling with, worrying, bothering, depressing, saddening, troubling, afflicting, besetting, dejecting, disturbing, harassing, taxing, upsetting, vexing, distressing, grieving, harrowing, haunting, inconveniencing, nagging, oppressing … more
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