Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome. See Synonyms at burdensome.
- adj. Law Entailing obligations that exceed advantages.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Burdensome; oppressive.
- In Scots law, imposing a burden in return for an advantage; being for a consideration: as, an onerous contract: opposed to gratuitous.
- Synonyms 1. Heavy, weighty, toilsome.
Wiktionary
- adj. imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Burdensome; oppressive.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not easily borne; wearing.
Etymologies
- From Latin onerosus ("burdensome"), from onus ("load"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French onereus, from Latin onerōsus, from onus, oner-, burden. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Internet broadcasters have been subject to what they call onerous rates since a ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board in June of 2007.”
The Wall Street Journal: Debate Over Royalty Rates Nears Resolution
“Icelandic citizens have balked at what they describe as the onerous terms of the current agreement, which would see every household have to contribute around €45,000 of the sum, worth around 40 percent of Iceland's GDP.”
“The company has also taken a £50m hit on what it called onerous sports rights contracts.”
“However, the number of reports required and monthly quotas and taxes remain onerous in a country where most people have no car or telephone.”
The Washington Post: Cuba's Raul Castro sets up framework for jobs market, small-business sector
“And yet when she or rather Peterson hired accountants to estimate their total tax level - a burden she characterizes as onerous - she placed them in eight different cities with "top-notch public school districts.”
“Through providing a billing and provisioning platform, resellers can offer customers a fully scalable range of IT services such as hosted virtual desktops, exchange and communications, VoIP, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), virtual server infrastructure and cloud storage on a 'pay monthly' basis without long term onerous contracts, he said.”
“Rep. Darrell Issa asks businesses to name onerous government regulations”
“It's not easy to pass all the barriers," he said, referring to the onerous criteria a candidate must meet to contest the presidency.”
“New House oversight chairman asks businesses to name onerous government regulations”
“Others simply point to the arcane paperwork involved in getting permits at City Hall or what many describe as onerous taxes on businesses.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘onerous’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
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GRE Barron's 800
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
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GRE 2014
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SAT Words
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Vocabulary
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My Favorite Words
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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My preparation
for GRE ofcourse
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my GRE words
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