| 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: | 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: | millstone |
| 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: | pest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or thing that presents problem |
Synonyms: |
annoyance, badgerer, bane, besetment, blight, blister, bore, bother, botheration, bug*, contagion, crashing bore, creep, curse, drag, drip, epidemic, exasperation, headache, infection, irritant, irritation, nag, nudge, nuisance, pain in the neck, pain*, pesterer, pestilence, pill, plague*, scourge*, tease*, thorn in side, tormentor, trial*, trouble, vexation, virus* |
| Main Entry: | plague |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | annoyance, curse |
Synonyms: |
affliction, aggravation, bane, besetment, blast, blight, bother, botheration, calamity, cancer, evil, exasperation, hydra, irritant, nuisance, pain, pest, problem, scourge, thorn in side, torment, trial, vexation |
Antonyms: |
advantage, good fortune, good luck |