Onerous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Onerous \On"er*ous\, a. [L. onerosus, fr. onus, oneris, a load,
     burden: cf. F. on['e]reux.]
     Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." --I.
     Taylor.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Onerous cause} (Scots Law), a good and legal consideration;
        -- opposed to {gratuitous}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  onerous
       adj : not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing
             the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I
             only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule"
             [syn: {burdensome}, {taxing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "onerous":
     Herculean, annoying, arduous, arduously, backbreaking, besetting,
     bothersome, burdensome, burdensomely, crushing, cumbersome,
     cumbrous, demanding, difficult, difficultly, effortful,
     encumbering, exacting, exhausting, exigent, forced, grievous,
     grinding, grueling, hampering, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought,
     hardly, harsh, heavy, heavy-handed, hefty, impedimental, impeding,
     impeditive, incumbent, irksome, killing, labored, laborious,
     laboriously, lumpish, massive, onerously, operose, oppressive,
     overburdensome, painful, plaguey, ponderous, punishing, strained,
     strenuous, superincumbent, taxing, toilsome, toilsomely, tough,
     troublesome, trying, tyrannous, unruly, unwieldy, uphill,
     vexatious, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weighty