OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 15610

onerous

/ˈɒnəɹəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
oneroso
Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort; burdensome.
Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation,—no matter how onerous, how irksome.
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 h…
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