millstone

Main Entry:
millstone [mil-stohn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: burden
Synonyms: accountability, affliction, albatross, anxiety, ball and chain, blame, charge, concern, cross, deadweight, difficulty, encumbrance, grievance, hardship, hindrance, load, mental weight, misfortune, onus, punishment, responsibility, strain, stress, task, thorn in one's side, trial, trouble, worry
Main Entry: burden
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental weight; stress
Synonyms: Herculean task, accountability, affliction, albatross, anxiety, ball and chain, blame, care, charge, clog, concern, deadweight, difficulty, duty, encumbrance, excess baggage, grievance, hardship, hindrance, load, millstone, misfortune, mishap, obstruction, onus, punishment, responsibility, sorrow, strain, task, tax, thorn in one's side, trial, trouble, weary load, work, worry
Antonyms: aid, help, relief
Main Entry: charge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: burden
Synonyms: care, commitment, committal, concern, custody, deadweight, duty, millstone, must, need, obligation, office, onus, ought, responsibility, right, safekeeping, task, tax, trust, ward, weight
Main Entry: difficulty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental burden
Synonyms: ado, aggravation, annoyance, anxiety, bafflement, bother, care, charge, complication, crisis, depression, discouragement, distress, embarrassment, emergency, exigency, frustration, grievance, hangup, harassment, imbroglio, inconvenience, irritation, jam, maze, mess, millstone, misery, oppression, perplexity, pickle, pinch, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, ramification, responsibility, scrape*, setback, strain, strait, stress, strife, struggle, to-do, trouble, vicissitude, weight, worry
Antonyms: calmness, contentment, peace, pleasure, satisfaction
Main Entry: duty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: responsibility, assignment
Synonyms: burden, business, calling, charge, chore, commission, commitment, committal, contract, devoir, dues, engagement, function, hook*, job, load, millstone, minding the store, mission, must, need, obligation, occupation, office, onus, ought, pains, part, province, role, service, station, string, taking care of business, task, trouble, trust, undertaking, weight, work
Antonyms: disregard, irresponsibility
Main Entry: encumbrance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: burden
Synonyms: albatross, ball and chain, cross, debt, duty, guilt, handicap, hindrance, impediment, load, millstone, monkey on one's back, obstruction, responsibility, saddle, thorn in one's side, weight, worry
Main Entry: handicap
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disadvantage
Synonyms: affliction, baggage, barrier, block, burden, detriment, disability, drawback, encumbrance, hangup, hindrance, impairment, impediment, injury, limitation, load, millstone, obstacle, psychological baggage, restriction, shortcoming, stumbling block
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, help
Main Entry: hindrance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: obstruction, difficulty
Synonyms: Catch-22, albatross, baggage, ball and chain, bar, barrier, catch, check, clog, crimp, cumbrance, deterrent, drag, drawback, encumbrance, excess baggage, foot dragging, glitch*, gridlock, handicap, hang-up, hitch, impedance, impediment, interference, interruption, intervention, jam-up, joker, limitation, lock, millstone, monkey wrench, obstacle, restraint, restriction, snag, stoppage, stumbling block, trammel
Antonyms: advance, aid, assistance, encouragement, expedition, help, promotion, push
Main Entry: impediment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: obstruction, hindrance
Synonyms: Catch-22, bar, barricade, barrier, block, blockage, bottleneck, burden, catch*, chain, check, clog, cramp, curb, dead weight, defect, delay, deterrent, detriment, difficulty, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, encumbrance, fault, flaw, handicap, hazard, hitch, holdup, hurdle, inhibition, load, manacle, millstone, obstacle, prohibition, red tape, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, road block, rub*, setback, shackle, snag, stoppage, stricture, stumbling block, tie, trammel, wall
Antonyms: aid, assistance, facilitation, furtherance, help, support
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