taxing

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈtæksɪŋ/ UK /ˈtæksɪŋ/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adj
physically or mentally demanding; burdensome

The all-night negotiation was a taxing ordeal.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · physically or mentally... demanding burdensome onerous arduous draining exhausting wearing

Opposites

easy effortlessundemandingrelaxing

Word family

Related forms tax taxation

Etymology

From tax + -ing. Tax is from Old French taxer ('to impose a tax'), from Latin taxare ('to assess, handle, censure'), frequentative of tangere ('to touch').

taxare Latin tangere Latin

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Topics

Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# taxing

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ˈtæksɪŋ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈtæksɪŋ/

## Meanings
1. physically or mentally demanding; burdensome

## Examples
- The all-night negotiation was a taxing ordeal.

## Synonyms
- demanding
- burdensome
- onerous
- arduous
- draining
- exhausting
- wearing

## Antonyms
- easy
- effortless
- undemanding
- relaxing

## Related Forms
- tax
- taxation

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: taxare
- Root: tangere

## Etymology
From tax + -ing. Tax is from Old French taxer ('to impose a tax'), from Latin taxare ('to assess, handle, censure'), frequentative of tangere ('to touch').

## AI Etymology
Taxing comes from tax + -ing. Tax is from Old French taxer ('to impose a tax'), from Latin taxare ('to assess, handle, censure'), frequentative of tangere ('to touch'). The historical chain includes Latin taxare and Latin tangere. The quoted older senses, "to impose a tax", "to assess, handle, censure", and "to touch", supply the semantic anchors for taxing. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word taxing carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "physically or mentally demanding; burdensome". Related English forms include tax and taxation. The result is a adj and verb whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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