Onerous
adjective
Involving a lot of effort or work.
It's an onerous task to clean the entire house.
Often appears as...
- onerous tasks
- onerous duty
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Referring to a legal agreement or requirement that involves a lot of effort or work.
The terms of the contract are quite onerous.
Often appears as...
- onerous terms
- onerous conditions
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Technical
adjective
Involving a lot of effort or work.
It's an onerous task to clean the entire house.
Often appears as...
- onerous tasks
- onerous duty
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Referring to a legal agreement or requirement that involves a lot of effort or work.
The terms of the contract are quite onerous.
Often appears as...
- onerous terms
- onerous conditions
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Effort Intensity
Use 'onerous' to describe tasks that feel overwhelmingly heavy or difficult.
Studying for the bar exam was an onerous undertaking.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Onerous' conveys not only difficulty but also a sense of burden that can affect one's emotions.
The onerous nature of caregiving can lead to emotional exhaustion.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
While daunting, 'onerous' tasks can have a positive outcome or purpose.
Despite the onerous work, the charity event was a great success.
Pro Tip 1/3Effort Intensity
Use 'onerous' to describe tasks that feel overwhelmingly heavy or difficult.
Studying for the bar exam was an onerous undertaking.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Onerous' conveys not only difficulty but also a sense of burden that can affect one's emotions.
The onerous nature of caregiving can lead to emotional exhaustion.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
While daunting, 'onerous' tasks can have a positive outcome or purpose.
Despite the onerous work, the charity event was a great success.
Pro Tip 1/3Effort Intensity
Use 'onerous' to describe tasks that feel overwhelmingly heavy or difficult.
Studying for the bar exam was an onerous undertaking.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Onerous' conveys not only difficulty but also a sense of burden that can affect one's emotions.
The onerous nature of caregiving can lead to emotional exhaustion.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
While daunting, 'onerous' tasks can have a positive outcome or purpose.
Despite the onerous work, the charity event was a great success.
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How understanding...
and saved for a day when they might actually need it. And maybe the mortgage that they took on wouldn't have been as onerous, and maybe Andy wouldn't have had to work so hard to make those payments. And maybe he would have become less resentful. Maybe they would have lived in a smaller house and been content to do that.
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Rodney Brooks: Why we...
of today's factory workers in the U.S. They're older, and they're getting older and older. There aren't many young people coming into factory work. And as their tasks become more onerous on them, we need to give them tools that they can collaborate with, so that they can be part of the solution,
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Nandan Nilekani's ideas...
This needs to be fixed because unless you can bring these people into the formal workforce, you will end up creating a whole lot of people who are completely disenfranchised. Therefore we need to create a new set of labor laws, which are not as onerous as they are today.
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The true power of the...
national characters and especially characters of the young people who all too often are subjected to bombardment of sensation rather than digested experience ultimately especially now in this world where we live in a context of regressive and onerous immigration laws
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How to turn protest into...
a way to hold corporations accountable for their misdeeds, or, instead, a way to free them from onerous regulations. This brings us to the second strategy, choosing a defining fight. All politics is about contrasts. Few of us think about civic life in the abstract.
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Ken Jennings: Watson,...
I've read economists saying that, as a result of these new technologies, we'll enter a new golden age of leisure when we'll all have time for the things we really love because all these onerous tasks will be taken over by Watson and his digital brethren.
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Ben Cameron: The true...
and especially characters of the young people, who all too often are subjected to bombardment of sensation, rather than digested experience. Ultimately, especially now in this world, where we live in a context of regressive and onerous immigration laws,
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A Safe Pathway to...
and onerous documentation requests. Not to mention the difficulty of shepherding your entire family through this process when you’ve been separated, traumatized and have few resources at your disposal.
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The original ring of...
The first kinds, we desire for their own sake, like the experience of harmless pleasure. The second, we want only for the value they bring, though they may be onerous, like exercise or medicine.
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Birth of the Vibrator PIPE...
probably weren't that good at bringing women to orgasm when they were helping women come to orgasm their hands got tired like a lot of manual tasks that are difficult and possibly onerous it
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How understanding...
and saved for a day when they might actually need it. And maybe the mortgage that they took on wouldn't have been as onerous, and maybe Andy wouldn't have had to work so hard to make those payments. And maybe he would have become less resentful. Maybe they would have lived in a smaller house and been content to do that.
Video examples
Rodney Brooks: Why we...
of today's factory workers in the U.S. They're older, and they're getting older and older. There aren't many young people coming into factory work. And as their tasks become more onerous on them, we need to give them tools that they can collaborate with, so that they can be part of the solution,
Video examples
Nandan Nilekani's ideas...
This needs to be fixed because unless you can bring these people into the formal workforce, you will end up creating a whole lot of people who are completely disenfranchised. Therefore we need to create a new set of labor laws, which are not as onerous as they are today.
Video examples
The true power of the...
national characters and especially characters of the young people who all too often are subjected to bombardment of sensation rather than digested experience ultimately especially now in this world where we live in a context of regressive and onerous immigration laws
Video examples
How to turn protest into...
a way to hold corporations accountable for their misdeeds, or, instead, a way to free them from onerous regulations. This brings us to the second strategy, choosing a defining fight. All politics is about contrasts. Few of us think about civic life in the abstract.
Video examples
Ken Jennings: Watson,...
I've read economists saying that, as a result of these new technologies, we'll enter a new golden age of leisure when we'll all have time for the things we really love because all these onerous tasks will be taken over by Watson and his digital brethren.
Video examples
Ben Cameron: The true...
and especially characters of the young people, who all too often are subjected to bombardment of sensation, rather than digested experience. Ultimately, especially now in this world, where we live in a context of regressive and onerous immigration laws,
Video examples
A Safe Pathway to...
and onerous documentation requests. Not to mention the difficulty of shepherding your entire family through this process when you’ve been separated, traumatized and have few resources at your disposal.
Video examples
The original ring of...
The first kinds, we desire for their own sake, like the experience of harmless pleasure. The second, we want only for the value they bring, though they may be onerous, like exercise or medicine.
Video examples
Birth of the Vibrator PIPE...
probably weren't that good at bringing women to orgasm when they were helping women come to orgasm their hands got tired like a lot of manual tasks that are difficult and possibly onerous it
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Zachary Taylor
American President
The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
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Michael Hirst
English Writer
When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.
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Gina McCarthy
American Public Servant
The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix. The consequences are higher energy prices for families and a contraction of our nation's economic growth.
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
The strange dilemma of the 'ethnic-fiction' writer is that you are supposed to carry a banner for your homeland, be a voice for it, and educate the rest of the world about it, but I think that's far too onerous a burden for any writer to bear.
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William Shatner
Canadian Actor
My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
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Luciana Berger
British Politician
Twitter has made some improvements on the site and it's important that you can report people - but when you are getting the level of abuse I was, it's an onerous task reporting each and every person.
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Gretchen Rubin
American Author
When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
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Victoria Woodhull
American Activist
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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Amy Tan
American Novelist
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
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Zachary Taylor
American President
The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
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Michael Hirst
English Writer
When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.
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Gina McCarthy
American Public Servant
The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix. The consequences are higher energy prices for families and a contraction of our nation's economic growth.
Quote examples
Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
The strange dilemma of the 'ethnic-fiction' writer is that you are supposed to carry a banner for your homeland, be a voice for it, and educate the rest of the world about it, but I think that's far too onerous a burden for any writer to bear.
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William Shatner
Canadian Actor
My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
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Luciana Berger
British Politician
Twitter has made some improvements on the site and it's important that you can report people - but when you are getting the level of abuse I was, it's an onerous task reporting each and every person.
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Gretchen Rubin
American Author
When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
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Victoria Woodhull
American Activist
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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Amy Tan
American Novelist
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
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