onerous
burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship: onerous duties.
having or involving obligations or responsibilities, especially legal ones, that outweigh the advantages: an onerous agreement.
Origin of onerous
1Other words for onerous
1 | heavy, crushing, grievous; irksome, galling |
Other words from onerous
- on·er·ous·ly, adverb
- on·er·ous·ness, o·ne·ros·i·ty [oh-nuh-ros-i-tee], /ˌoʊ nəˈrɒs ɪ ti/, noun
- non·on·er·ous, adjective
- non·on·er·ous·ly, adverb
- non·on·er·ous·ness, noun
- un·on·er·ous, adjective
- un·on·er·ous·ly, adverb
- un·on·er·ous·ness, noun
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How to use onerous in a sentence
Clinic workers in multiple states have found the new requirements so onerous they’ve started writing all the vaccination records on paper and entering them into the computer by hand when they have free time.
Considering how much money was set aside, the Main Street lending program and municipal lending programs haven’t been well utilized, with critics saying the loans carry onerous requirements.
Debate over Fed’s powers prove stumbling block to stimulus talks | Rachel Siegel | December 18, 2020 | Washington PostClearly, such performance would be regarded as that of a star trader, and not that of a politician with other onerous duties.
The move reflects the agency’s recognition that the two-week quarantine rule is onerous for many people and that most of the public health benefit from quarantining people exposed to the virus can be gained with a more flexible approach.
CDC says 2-week coronavirus quarantines can be cut to 10 or 7 days | Joel Achenbach | December 2, 2020 | Washington PostObama then seems to try to temper that by adding that the unions were “understandably wary” of standardized testing — but he doesn’t mention just how onerous the testing became.
The telling things Barack Obama wrote — and didn’t mention — about his education policies in new memoir | Valerie Strauss | December 2, 2020 | Washington Post
Yet their biggest star, a master practitioner of the sport, could face prison time for much less onerous financial crimes.
The pair had argued, and the assistant ceased performing this most onerous of duties.
It was regarded as so deeply onerous that the dictator Anastasio “Tachito” Somoza abolished it in 1970.
China’s Nicaragua Canal Could Spark a New Central America Revolution | Nina Lakhani | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe demand of being an EU state have been onerous and living conditions have not improved.
In Hands of Hungarian Artist, Jewish Home Movies of the ’30s a Warning of Coming Holocaust | Daniel Genis | October 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHelp with onerous conditions is not help so much as benevolent coercion.
Nothing is more onerous and more ruinous for the greatest part of the nations than the worship of their Gods!
Superstition In All Ages (1732) | Jean MeslierOne is medical officer, another is second in command, and the most onerous task is that accepted by the 'steward.'
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.Persist in your resolve, and remain faithful to your duties, no matter how onerous they may seem.
The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence | Eugne SueTheir estates were relieved of a most onerous charge, and the lands freed from the burden of supporting the army of the state.
Landholding In England | Joseph FisherThe ostentation of the court had become an onerous ceremony, the monarchical principle an unendurable constraint.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard Muther
British Dictionary definitions for onerous
/ (ˈɒnərəs, ˈəʊ-) /
laborious or oppressive
law (of a contract, lease, etc) having or involving burdens or obligations that counterbalance or outweigh the advantages
Origin of onerous
1Derived forms of onerous
- onerously, adverb
- onerousness, noun
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