Definitions
not easily borne; wearing
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English onerous, borrowed from Middle French onereux, from Old French onereus, a learned borrowing from Latin onerosus, from onus (“burden”) + -ōsus. Compare exonerate.
Used in a sentence
“Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation,—no matter how onerous, how irksome.”
“[I]t has become an onerous duty, a wearisome and distasteful task.”
“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.”
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01“Burdensome”7 letters
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