Onerous
['əʊn(ə)rəs;'ɒn-] or ['ɑnərəs]
Definition
(a.) Burdensome; oppressive.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Burdensome, oppressive, heavy, weighty, laborious, toilsome, operose, hard, difficult.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Burdensome, toilsome, heavy, responsible, oppressive, laborious, oppose,difficult
ANT:Light, easy, trivial, inoppressive
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Definition
adj. burdensome: oppressive.—adj. On′erary fitted or intended for carrying burdens: comprising burdens.—adv. On′erously.—n. On′erousness.
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Examples
- In addition to scientific discoveries, the manufacture of glass in England received a great impetus by the removal of onerous excise duties which had been imposed on its manufacture. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Another thing she did, and which made traveling an onerous trial for her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation, no matter how onerous, how irksome. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Oh, they were not onerous: just to sit at the head of his table now and then. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- To them it seemed better to let ill alone and seek some other clime where conditions would be less onerous. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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