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   onerous

   /ˈəʊn(ə)rəs/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a task or responsibility) involving a great deal of effort, trouble, or difficulty: "he found his duties increasingly onerous"
   • ▪ involving heavy obligations: "an onerous lease"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French onereus, from Latin onerosus, from onus, oner- ‘burden’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. onerously adverb
   • 2. onerousness noun

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   What does onerous mean?

   • oneroso, pesado… Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! ONEROUS definition: 1. difficult to do or needing a lot of effort: 2. difficult to do or needing a lot of effort: 3…. Learn more.

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   What does it mean if a contract is onerous?

   • In legal usage, onerous describes a contract or lease that has more obligations than advantages. Onerous derives from Middle English, from Old French onereus, from Latin onerōsus, from onus "burden." In English, an onus is a task or duty that is onerous, or very difficult.

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   What does it mean if a task is onerous?

   • If you describe a task as onerous, you dislike having to do it because you find it difficult or unpleasant. ...parents who have had the onerous task of bringing up a very difficult child. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. Law

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   Where did the word 'onerous' come from?

   • But perhaps that’s putting the cart before the horse. Onerous rolled into the English language during the 14th century, via Middle French, from the Latin adjective onerosus, "burdensome." That word, in turn, was hitched to the noun onus, meaning "burden" (source too of our word onus, which usually refers to a burden or responsibility).

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   Onerous means involving, imposing, or constituting a burden or hardship. Learn the synonyms, examples, etymology, and legal usage of this adjective from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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   Onerous means difficult to do or needing a lot of effort. Learn how to use this formal adjective in different contexts, such as taxes, duties, or tasks, with synonyms and examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.

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   If one teacher gives you three hours of homework a night, that's rough. But if all of your teachers do it, that makes the task of completing your homework an onerous one, to say the least.

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   Onerous means difficult or unpleasant to do. Learn how to use this formal adjective in sentences, find synonyms and related words, and see how it is translated in different languages.