What is another word for onerous?
427 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ˈə͡ʊnəɹəs], [ ˈəʊnəɹəs], [ ˈəʊ_n_ə_ɹ_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for onerous:- arduous (adjective)
- burdensome (adjective)
- demanding (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- difficult; requiring hard labor (adjective)
- disturbing (adjective)
- exacting (adjective)
- formidable (adjective)
- grievous (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- heavy (adjective)
- heightened (adjective)
- oppressive (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- ponderous (adjective)
- rigorous (adjective)
- taxing (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- trying (adjective)
- unsettling (adjective)
- upsetting (adjective)
- oppressive (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Onerous:
adj.
•arduous (adjective) •burdensome (adjective)- super-incumbent,
- super incumbent,
- more carking,
- most crushing,
- most carking,
- most superincumbent,
- more crushing,
- more superincumbent.
- contrary,
- cumbersome,
- uphill,
- tight,
- bothersome,
- easier said than done,
- complex,
- complicated,
- rough,
- cantankerous,
- not easy,
- Difficile,
- finicky,
- upstream,
- hard-won,
- up-stream,
- wearisome,
- knotty,
- ticklish,
- wearing,
- grinding,
- thorny,
- wearying,
- rugged,
- tricky,
- immense,
- troublesome,
- galling,
- Operose,
- adverse,
- fussy,
- harsh.
- grueling,
- distressing,
- vexatious,
- austere,
- Irksome,
- embittering,
- overtaxing,
- pressing,
- crushing,
- ponderous,
- excessive,
- exhausting,
- grave,
- intolerable,
- overpowering,
- Fatiguing,
- plodding,
- responsible,
- tiring,
- merciless,
- serious,
- headache.
- dis-comforting,
- most harassing,
- most agitating,
- more discomforting,
- more discommoding,
- dis composing,
- more foreboding,
- most discomposing,
- dis agreeable,
- most discommoding,
- dis-agreeable,
- fore boding,
- dis-composing,
- impeding,
- dis concerting,
- most foreboding,
- more discomposing,
- dis-concerting,
- most discomforting,
- more troubling,
- un pleasant,
- most disconcerting,
- more disconcerting,
- un-pleasant,
- Harassing,
- most impeding,
- embarrassing,
- more agitating,
- most troubling,
- troubling,
- fore-boding,
- dis comforting,
- more impeding,
- more harassing.
- ex-acting,
- hyper-critical,
- un sparing,
- hyper critical,
- un-sparing,
- more nit-picking,
- stern,
- more nit picking,
- most nit-picking,
- by book,
- most nit picking,
- nit picking,
- ex acting,
- unsparing.
- staggering,
- over powering,
- more all-powerful,
- more dismaying,
- puissant,
- most ballbuster,
- more all powerful,
- more allpowerful,
- most allpowerful,
- most all powerful,
- more ballbuster,
- most dismaying,
- most all-powerful,
- mightiest,
- over-powering,
- allpowerful,
- dis-maying,
- dis maying.
- in tolerable,
- dis quieting,
- most heart rending,
- most wounding,
- un bearable,
- egregious,
- more wounding,
- un-bearable,
- more afflicting,
- most afflicting,
- heart rending,
- dis-quieting,
- most heart-rending,
- in-tolerable,
- more heart rending,
- more heart-rending.
- in human,
- more confining,
- un-just,
- most depressive,
- in-human,
- most confining,
- most ironhanded,
- more depressive,
- de pressing,
- more disheartening,
- more ironhanded,
- most disheartening,
- heavy handed,
- dis-heartening,
- de-pressing,
- heavyhanded,
- un just,
- over bearing,
- un justest,
- more headache,
- dis heartening,
- most headache,
- un-justest,
- un juster,
- Over-bearing,
- un-juster.
- heavy,
- taxing,
- Enervative,
- disturbing,
- uncool,
- backbreaker,
- difficult,
- formidable,
- ballbuster,
- head ache,
- trying,
- depressive,
- nit-picking,
- laborious,
- unwieldy,
- exigent,
- superincumbent,
- troublous,
- tough proposition,
- burdensome,
- tough,
- rigorous,
- Carking,
- dragger,
- tall order,
- demanding,
- heart-rending,
- by the book,
- tough job,
- ho hum,
- hard,
- Unhandy,
- boresome,
- exacting,
- a bit much,
- ironhanded,
- weighty,
- all-powerful,
- rough going,
- stressful,
- arduous,
- no picnic,
- rough go,
- toilsome,
- hohum,
- oppressive,
- upsetting,
- unsettling,
- tiresome,
- perturbing,
- ho-hum,
- grievous,
- nowhere.
- un-compromising,
- un permissive,
- de-finite,
- most unpermissive,
- un-permissive,
- un compromising,
- in-flexible,
- in temperate,
- unpermissive,
- in clement,
- in-clement,
- de finite,
- more unpermissive,
- in flexible,
- in-temperate.
- more sapping,
- Sapping,
- most sapping,
- most enervating,
- most stressful,
- more stressful,
- more enervating.
n.
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- critical,
- testing,
- delicate,
- intractable,
- awkward,
- impossible.
Other synonyms:
•Other relevant words (noun):- dense,
- massive,
- unruly,
- nasty,
- unbearable,
- herculean,
- spartan,
- grim,
- Disrupting,
- rigourous,
- hard-earned,
- dark,
- work,
- enervating,
- disastrous,
- fierce,
- gruelling,
- bitter,
- draining,
- calamitous,
- agonizing,
- dispiriting,
- donkeywork,
- pulverization,
- excruciating,
- lumpish,
- hard-fought,
- killing,
- strained,
- Impedimental,
- persnickety,
- harrowing,
- malevolent,
- cruel,
- indomitable,
- deep,
- overwhelming,
- Besetting,
- troubled,
- inexpedient,
- inhuman,
- inopportune,
- unsupportable,
- repressive,
- ruinous,
- Encumbering,
- unfavourable,
- arduously,
- tyrannical,
- labor,
- inconvenient,
- punishing,
- miserable,
- irritating,
- depressing,
- distressful,
- insupportable,
- disheartening,
- tedious,
- plaguey,
- tyrannous,
- powerful,
- Straitening,
- hefty,
- DEADWEIGHT CARGO,
- laboured,
- mighty,
- racking,
- stodgy,
- back-breaking,
- Hampering,
- Draconic,
- aggrieved,
- Impeditive,
- crippling,
- worrisome,
- nerd,
- cumbrous,
- unfavorable,
- tragical,
- draconian,
- unendurable,
- wonk,
- toilsomely,
- annoying,
- sore,
- labored,
- incumbent,
- hardly,
- obtrusive,
- afflictive,
- worrying,
- drudgery,
- withering,
- forced,
- disadvantageous,
- awful,
- inappropriate,
- challenging,
- discouraging,
- bad,
- wretched,
- toil,
- untimely,
- laboriously,
- heartbreaking,
- Overburdensome,
- brutal,
- stiff,
- burdensomely,
- onerously,
- stringent,
- hardhanded,
- sweat,
- ill timed,
- Desolating,
- malign,
- dolorous,
- Difficultly,
- heavy-handed,
- mill,
- punitive.
Paraphrases for Onerous:
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Equivalence
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burdensome.
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Independent
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stringent, strenuous, challenging, rigorous, restrictive, complicated, demanding, harsh, oppressive, exhausting, formidable, tortuous, inconvenient, awkward, pricey, painstaking, draconian, stressful, momentous, problematic, hard, high-cost, tricky, strict, rigourous, complex, overwhelming, catastrophic, ambitious, binding, indebted, uphill, frustrating, herculean, unpleasant, unattractive, thorny, embarrassing, grave, dire, huge, far-reaching, inexpensive, constraining, significant, troubled, cost-effective, disagreeable, exorbitant, intractable.
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cumbersome, arduous, difficult, costly, expensive, laborious, tedious, ponderous, serious, troublesome, exacting, severe, heavy, weighty, enormous, tough, unwieldy, distressing, tiresome, daunting, cost-intensive, time-consuming, painful, tremendous, fraught, heavy-duty, excessive.
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