Burden and Nuisance

Burden

Burden noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.

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Nuisance and burden are semantically related In some cases you can use "Nuisance" instead a noun "Burden".

Nearby Words: burdened, burdensome, burdening

Nuisance noun - Something that is a source of irritation.

Usage example: folding up this map correctly is such a nuisance

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Burden and nuisance are semantically related in source of annoyance topic. Sometimes you can use "Burden" instead a noun "Nuisance".

particular	particular burden	particular nuisance
complete	complete burden	complete nuisance
sheer	sheer burden	sheer nuisance
annoying	annoying burden	annoying nuisance
Other adjectives: painful, actual, real, constant, massive, large, huge, horrible, useless, major, additional, biggest.

Hell's mother hated him and regarded him as a burden and a nuisance, and she made her contempt very clear to everyone, including her son.

Source: Resentful Guardian
Her father remarried with his lover and both of them treated Asuka like a nuisance or an imposed burden.

Source: Broken Bird / Anime and Manga
In Sonic Rush Adventure, Blaze coldly tells Marine that she's an annoying nuisance (which is not entirely unjustified) and that she'd be a burden to them because it would be to dangerous for her to come with them to Whisker's hideout and because Sonic and Tails don't have the guts to do it.

Source: Cruel to Be Kind

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