onerously

Examples

• All

• The project was onerously challenging, requiring countless hours of research and revisions.

• But if one's own condition as a member of the freest generation of females in the history of humankind could be made to seem onerously deprived, anything is possible, especially when ideology overwhelms common experience.

  Academic text (1993)

• I'll treat your question about employment contracts as though it weren't rhetorical, and say simply that all employment contracts, which are usually onerously one-sided, are always effectively signed under duress, because you can't have the job unless you sign one.

  Blog text (15)

• She onerously juggled multiple tasks at work, leaving her exhausted by the end of the day.

• Moving the heavy furniture was onerously difficult, causing several strains and aches.

Synonyms

H

heavily

vsonerously

243 1.1

In a way that shows great weight or effort

means burdensome difficulty in effort rather than physical weight alone

S

strenuously

vsonerously

12 5.5

With great effort and determination

leans more toward heavy hardship and burdensome difficulty

I

intensively

vsonerously

8 3.9

With a lot of effort and attention

refers instead to heavy difficulty and overall burden rather than focus

L

laboriously

vsonerously

5 6.6

With a lot of effort in a slow, tiring way

focuses more on the heavy burden and difficulty involved

O

oppressively

vsonerously

1 6.6

In a way that feels heavy and makes you uncomfortable

describes effortful difficulty without focusing mainly on emotional distress

A

arduously

vsonerously

1 7.8

In a way that needs great effort and long hard work

stresses heavy difficulty and burden beyond mere persistence

G

gruelingly

vsonerously

1 7.7

You do something with great effort that makes you very tired

emphasizes burden and hardship rather than only extreme tiredness

E

effortfully

vsonerously

5.4

In a way that uses a lot of physical or mental energy

adds a stronger sense of difficulty and burden to the effort

B

burdensomely

vsonerously

8.9

In a way that makes something hard to do or bear

also implies active effort and strenuous difficulty, not only caused harm

Antonyms

E

easily

∞ 1.0

Without much effort

How Burdensome

oppressively

1 6.6

onerously

• Formal

8.6

demandingly

6.7

manageably

4.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology