| 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: | 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 |
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advance, aid, assistance, encouragement, expedition, help, promotion, push |
| Main Entry: | load |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden, pressure |
Synonyms: |
affliction, albatross, care, charge, cumber, deadweight, drag, drain, duty, encumbrance, excess baggage, incubus, liability, millstone, obligation, onus, oppression, responsibility, task, tax, trouble, trust, weight, worry |
Antonyms: |
benefit, blessing |
| Main Entry: | nonessential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not needed or important |
Synonyms: |
deadwood, dispensable, excess baggage, excessive, expendable, extraneous, inessential, insignificant, peripheral, petty, superfluous, trivial, unimportant, unnecessary |
Antonyms: |
essential, important, necessary, needed |
| Main Entry: | restriction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | limit |
Synonyms: |
ball and chain, bounds, brake, catch, check, circumscription, condition, confinement, constraint, containment, contraction, control, cramp, curb, custody, demarcation, excess baggage, fine print, glitch*, grain of salt, handicap, hang-up, inhibition, limitation, limits, lock*, no-no, qualification, regulation, reservation, restraint, rule, small difficulty, stint, stipulation, stricture, string, stumbling block |
Antonyms: |
enlargement, expansion, freedom, release |
| Main Entry: | unwelcome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not wanted, desired |
Synonyms: |
blackballed, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, exceptionable, excess baggage, excluded, ill-favored, inadmissible, left out in cold, lousy, not in the picture, objectionable, obnoxious, rejected, repellent, shut out, thankless, unacceptable, unasked, undesirable, uninvited, unpleasant, unpopular, unsought, unwanted, unwished-for |
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desirable, wanted, welcome |
| Main Entry: | weight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
Synonyms: |
albatross, ball and chain, charge, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, duty, encumbrance, excess baggage, load, millstone, onus, oppression, pressure, responsibility, strain, task, tax |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, pleasure, solution |
| Main Entry: | inhospitableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unwelcome |
Synonyms: |
blackballed, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, exceptionable, excess baggage, excluded, ill-favored, inadmissible, inhospitality, left out in cold, lousy, not in the picture, objectionable, obnoxious, rejected, repellent, shut out, thankless, unacceptable, unasked, undesirable, ungraciousness, uninvited, unpleasant, unpopular, unreceptiveness, unsought, unwanted, unwelcomeness, unwished-for |
| Main Entry: | inhospitality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unwelcome |
Synonyms: |
blackballed, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, exceptionable, excess baggage, excluded, ill-favored, inadmissible, inhospitableness, left out in cold, lousy, not in the picture, objectionable, obnoxious, rejected, repellent, shut out, thankless, unacceptable, unasked, undesirable, ungraciousness, uninvited, unpleasant, unpopular, unreceptiveness, unsought, unwanted, unwelcomeness, unwished-for |
| Main Entry: | undesired |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unwelcome |
Synonyms: |
blackballed, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, exceptionable, excess baggage, excluded, ill-favored, inadmissible, left out in cold, lousy, not in the picture, objectionable, obnoxious, rejected, repellent, shut out, thankless, unacceptable, unasked, undesirable, uninvited, unpleasant, unpopular, unsought, unwanted, unwished-for |