adj
Meaning 1
With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
taxing
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈtæksɪŋ/
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adj
Meaning 2
Burdensome, difficult, exacting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a taxing problem
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: demanding, stiff
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The act of imposing a tax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City [...]
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
present participle and gerund of tax
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
not easily borne; wearing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return
- my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests
- a taxing schedule
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: burdensome, onerous
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)).
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: тежък (težǎk) — exhausting, draining
- Bulgarian: изморителен (izmoritelen) — exhausting, draining
- Finnish: uuvuttava — exhausting, draining
- French: épuisant — exhausting, draining
- French: exténuant — exhausting, draining
- French: éprouvant — exhausting, draining
- Hindi: बोझिल (bojhil) — exhausting, draining
- Irish: maslach — exhausting, draining
- Ukrainian: висна́жливий (vysnážlyvyj) — exhausting, draining
- Ukrainian: важки́й (važkýj) — exhausting, draining
- Bulgarian: труден (truden) — burdensome, difficult
- Finnish: rasittava — burdensome, difficult
- Finnish: vaikea — burdensome, difficult
- French: ardu — burdensome, difficult
- Hindi: बोझिल (bojhil) — burdensome, difficult
- Ukrainian: тяжки́й (tjažkýj) — burdensome, difficult
- Ukrainian: складни́й (skladnýj) — burdensome, difficult
- Finnish: verottaminen — act
- Finnish: veron määrääminen — act
- Polish: opodatkowanie — act