onerous
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Etymology
From Middle English onerous, from Middle French onereux, from Old French onereus, from Latin onerosus (“burdensome”), from onus (“load”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒnəɹəs/, /ˈəʊnəɹəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑnəɹəs/, /ˈoʊnəɹəs/
Adjective
onerous (comparative more onerous, superlative most onerous)
- Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort; burdensome.
- Synonyms: burdensome, demanding, difficult, taxing, wearing
- 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
- That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable.
- 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 13, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:
- Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation,—no matter how onerous, how irksome.
- 1910, Jack London, “The Golden Poppy”, in Revolution and Other Essays:
- [I]t has become an onerous duty, a wearisome and distasteful task.
- 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
- The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 11:
- However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers[.]
- 2024 June, “A novel system for non-invasive measurement of blood levels of glucose”, in Nature Reviews Endocrinology, volume 20, , page 320:
- People with diabetes mellitus rely predominantly on finger pricking to measure blood levels of glucose, which can be onerous.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
burdensome
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle French onereux, from Old French onereus, from Latin onerosus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
onerous
Descendants
- English: onerous
References
- “onerǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-7.
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