Table of Contents THESAURUS

THESAURUS

deadweight

avoirdupois, bale, beef, beefiness, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo, charge, charging, cross, cumber, cumbrance, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, duty, embarrassment, encumbrance, fatness, freight, gravity, gross weight, hamper, handicap, heaviness, heft, heftiness, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, lading, liveweight, load, loading, lumber, millstone, neat weight, net, net weight, onus, oppression, overbalance, overload, overtaxing, overweight, overweighting, pack, penalty, ponderability, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, pressure, saddling, superincumbency, surcharge, task, tax, taxing, tonnage, trouble, underweight, weight, weightiness, white elephant

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