All millstone synonyms

noun millstone

• albatross — An albatross is a very large white seabird.
• load — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
• grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
• strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
• affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• concern — Concern is worry about a situation.
• misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
• onus — a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
• cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
• accountability — the state of being accountable, liable, or answerable.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
• blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• anxiety — Anxiety is a feeling of nervousness or worry.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• stress — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
• task — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
• trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
• responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• punishment — the act of punishing.
• burden — If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
• weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
• dead weight — A dead weight is a load which is surprisingly heavy and difficult to lift.
• shackle — a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
• chain — A chain consists of metal rings connected together in a line.
• encumbrance — A burden or impediment.
• ball and chain — (formerly) a heavy iron ball attached to a chain and fastened to a prisoner
• deadweight — (of a shot) leaving the other balls in the ideal position
• thorn in one's side — a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch; spine; prickle.