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100 Best Synonyms for “Burdensome”

October 21, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. admin-heavy requiring much administrative work
2. aggravating annoying and making matters harder
3. all-consuming taking nearly all attention or energy
4. annoying causing irritation or difficulty
5. arduous requiring great effort and persistence
6. awkward difficult to handle smoothly
7. backbreaking requiring exhausting physical effort
8. binding restrictive and hard to escape
9. bothersome causing trouble or annoyance
10. bulky large and hard to handle
11. challenging testing one’s ability or resources
12. clumsy awkward and hard to manage
13. complex not simple; hard to manage
14. complicated difficult due to many parts
15. constraining limiting freedom and making things difficult
16. cost-intensive requiring substantial financial resources
17. costly requiring much money or sacrifice
18. cumbersome awkward and difficult to manage
19. daunting intimidatingly difficult to face
20. debilitating weakening and hard to endure
21. demanding requiring much time, effort, or skill
22. difficult not easy to deal with
23. documentation-heavy requiring much documentation
24. draining using up energy or resources
25. effortful requiring noticeable effort
26. elaborate complicated and demanding attention
27. encumbering weighing down or hindering
28. energy-draining using up much energy
29. exacting requiring careful effort or attention
30. exhausting making someone very tired
31. exigent requiring urgent effort or attention
32. expensive costing a lot to bear
33. fatiguing causing tiredness through effort
34. formidable difficult because of size or strength
35. frustrating causing difficulty and irritation
36. grueling extremely tiring and demanding
37. gruelling extremely tiring and demanding
38. hampering making progress difficult
39. hard requiring much effort or endurance
40. harsh unpleasantly hard or demanding
41. heavy emotionally or physically weighty
42. hindering making action or progress harder
43. impractical not workable; difficult to use
44. inconvenient causing trouble or difficulty
45. intimidating frighteningly difficult or demanding
46. intractable very hard to manage or solve
47. intricate complicated and requiring careful effort
48. involved complicated and difficult to manage
49. irksome annoying and hard to tolerate
50. labor-intensive requiring a lot of labor
51. laborious requiring long, hard work
52. maintenance-heavy requiring much upkeep
53. miserable very unpleasant and hard to endure
54. money-draining using up a lot of money
55. nettlesome annoying and troublesome
56. onerous demanding too much effort or duty
57. oppressive weighing heavily on someone
58. overpowering too strong or intense to bear
59. overwhelming too much to handle easily
60. painstaking requiring great care and effort
61. paperwork-heavy requiring much paperwork
62. pressing requiring immediate effort or attention
63. problematic causing problems or difficulty
64. prohibitive too costly or difficult to allow
65. punishing extremely hard or exhausting
66. recalcitrant stubbornly difficult to control
67. refractory stubbornly hard to manage
68. resource-draining using up many resources
69. resource-intensive requiring many resources to manage
70. restrictive limiting and difficult to work with
71. rigorous strict and demanding in effort
72. rough difficult, harsh, or unpleasant
73. severe very hard or demanding
74. stiff difficult and demanding to meet
75. stifling oppressively limiting or difficult
76. strenuous requiring intense physical or mental effort
77. stressful causing mental strain or pressure
78. stringent strict and difficult to satisfy
79. suffocating oppressively hard to endure
80. taxing requiring great effort or endurance
81. tedious long, dull, and tiring
82. time-consuming taking a lot of time
83. tiresome annoying or tiring to handle
84. tough difficult to endure or accomplish
85. troublesome causing difficulty, worry, or annoyance
86. troubling causing worry or difficulty
87. trying difficult and testing one’s patience
88. undesirable not wanted because troublesome
89. unhandy awkward or inconvenient to use
90. unmanageable too difficult to control or handle
91. unpleasant not enjoyable to endure
92. unwelcome not wanted and inconvenient
93. unwieldy difficult to handle or manage
94. unworkable too difficult to function effectively
95. vexing causing annoyance or difficulty
96. wearing gradually tiring or exhausting
97. wearisome causing tiredness or frustration
98. wearying making someone tired or impatient
99. weighty serious and hard to carry
100. work-intensive requiring much work

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