burdenous

English

Etymology

From burden +‎ -ous.

Adjective

burdenous (comparative more burdenous, superlative most burdenous)

  1. (obsolete) Heavy; oppressive.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.12:
      But still the tyrant sternely at him layd, / And did his yron axe so nimbly wield, / That many wounds into his flesh it made, / And with his burdenous blowes him sore did ouerlade.

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