[responsivevoice]onerous[/responsivevoice] [ on-er-uhs ]
The word of the day is ‘onerous’.
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Difficult
2. Requiring hard labour
3. Involving a great deal of effort, trouble, or difficulty
4. Burdensome
1. They are not onerous, and will not interfere with the daily life of the country.
2. There is a dignity to be borne which, though it may be onerous, must be supported.
3. The door-keeper of the gaming-house holds an onerous responsibility.
4. He is willing to surrender if the terms are not too onerous.
5. He found his duties increasingly onerous.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, cumbersome, demanding, difficult, distressing, excessive, exhausting, gruelling, harsh, intolerable, laborious, oppressive, painful, rigorous, severe, strenuous, taxing, troublesome, weighty, austere, crushing, embittering, exacting, exigent, fatiguing, formidable, galling, grave, grinding, hard, headache, heavy, irksome, merciless, overpowering, overtaxing, plodding, ponderous, pressing, responsible, serious, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, vexatious, inconvenient, awkward, crushing, uphill, tiring, punishing, stressful, wearisome, toilsome, merciless, etc.
calm, easy, easy-going, effortless, facile, friendly, gentle, helpful, mild, nice, relieving, simple, temperate, trivial, common, light, royal, ridiculously easy, easy as beans
Quotation:
We just simply want to get back to basics, get – restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every – basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition.
Joe Miller
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