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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burdensome |
| Synonyms: | demanding, difficult, disturbing, enervating, exacting, exigent, grievous, heavy, onerous, oppressive, punishing, sapping, stressful, tedious, tiring, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, wearisome, weighty |
| Antonyms: | easy, untroubling |
| Main Entry: | toilsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | laborious |
| Synonyms: | arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, exhausting, hard, labored, onerous, operose, rough, strenuous, taxing, tiresome, uphill |
| Main Entry: | tough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, laborious |
| Synonyms: | arduous, backbreaking, baffling, burdensome, demanding, effortful, exacting, exhausting, exigent, grievous, hairy*, handful, hard, heavy, intractable, intricate, irksome, knotty, labored, mean, no piece of cake, onerous, oppressive, perplexing, puzzling, resisting, severe, stiff, strenuous, taxing, thorny, toilsome, troublesome, trying, unyielding, uphill, weighty, wicked |
| Antonyms: | controllable, easy, facile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | troublesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bothersome, worrisome |
| Synonyms: | alarming, annoying, arduous, burdensome, damaging, dangerous, demanding, difficult, disquieting, harassing, hard, heavy, importunate, inconvenient, infestive, intractable, irksome, irritating, laborious, mean, messy, murder, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilential, problematic, refractory, repressive, rough, taxing, tiresome, tough, tricky, troublous, trying, ugly, ungovernable, unruly, uphill, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wicked, worrying |
| Antonyms: | easy, helpful, nice, useful |
| Main Entry: | trying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, bothersome |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, annoying, arduous, demanding, exacting, exasperating, exigent, fatiguing, hard, irksome, irritating, onerous, oppressive, pestilent, provocative, rough, severe, sticky, strenuous, stressful, taxing, tight, tiresome, tough, tricky, troublesome, upsetting, vexing, wearisome, weighty |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, mild, moderate, unstressful |
| Main Entry: | tyrannical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despotic, oppressive |
| Synonyms: | authoritarian, autocratic, brutal, cruel, demanding, dictatorial, domineering, harsh, heavy-handed, ironhanded, mean, overbearing, repressive, ruthless, totalitarian, tough, unjust |
| Main Entry: | ungrateful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not appreciative |
| Synonyms: | careless, demanding, dissatisfied, faultfinding, forgetful, grasping, grumbling, heedless, ingrate, insensible, oblivious, self-centered, selfish, thankless, unappreciative, unmindful, unnatural, unthankful |
| Antonyms: | appreciative, grateful, thankful |
| Main Entry: | urgent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | needing immediate attention |
| Synonyms: | burning*, called-for, capital, chief, clamant, clamorous, compelling, critical, crucial, crying*, demanded, demanding, driving, essential, exigent, foremost, heavy*, hurry-up, immediate, impelling, imperative, important, importunate, indispensable, insistent, instant, leading, life and death, momentous, necessary, paramount, persuasive, pressing, primary, principal, required, salient, serious, top-priority, touch and go, touchy*, vital, wanted, weighty |
| Antonyms: | moderate, unimportant, unnecessary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome, difficult |
| Synonyms: | backbreaking, burdensome, crushing, demanding, exacting, exigent, grievous, onerous, oppressive, superincumbent, taxing, tough, worrisome, worrying |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, solvable |
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