443 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ˈə͡ʊnəs], [ ˈə‍ʊnəs], [ ˈəʊ_n_ə_s]

Similar words for onus:

• blame (noun)
• blot (noun)
• brand (noun)
• burden (noun)
• burden of proof (noun)
• care (noun)
• duty (noun)
• fault (noun)
• guilt (noun)
• incumbrance (noun)
• liability (noun)
• millstone (noun)
• obligation (noun)
• odium (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• responsibility (noun)
• slur (noun)
• stain (noun)
• stigma (noun)
• task (noun)
• weight (noun)
• white elephant (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for onus

Synonyms for Onus:

• n.

  •
  • over,
  • commitment,
  • trust,
  • heavy,
  • millstone.
  •
  • respect,
  • taint,
  • marks,
  • tarnish,
  • blemish,
  • spot.
  •
  • start.
  • blame (noun)
  • answerability.
  • blot (noun)
  • dis-grace,
  • dis coloration,
  • dis-coloration,
  • dis-colorations,
  • dis graces,
  • dis-graces,
  • dis colorations,
  • dis grace.
  • brand (noun)
  • mark cain.
  • burden (noun)
  • blur,
  • bar sinister,
  • oppression,
  • incubus.
  • burden of proof (noun)
  • burden-proof,
  • burden proof,
  • onus probandis.
  • care (noun)
  • dis-composures,
  • un-easiness,
  • mis-giving,
  • dis-tresses,
  • fore boding,
  • dis tresses,
  • fore bodings,
  • dis-quiet,
  • dis-composure,
  • un easinesses,
  • dis-quiets,
  • dis-mays,
  • dis tress,
  • un-happinesses,
  • fore-bodings,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis composures,
  • dis mays,
  • un happinesses,
  • un happiness,
  • un-easinesses,
  • dis quiet,
  • dis-may,
  • mis giving,
  • dis may,
  • un easiness,
  • dis composure,
  • un-happiness,
  • fretfulnesses,
  • dis quiets,
  • fore-boding.
  • duty (noun)
  • minding the store,
  • devoir,
  • taking care of business,
  • mission,
  • devoirs.
  • fault (noun)
  • loss innocence,
  • over sights,
  • mis-deed,
  • mis deeds,
  • mis demeanor,
  • in-discretion,
  • mis demeanors,
  • mis cue,
  • in-discretions,
  • mis-demeanor,
  • mis cues,
  • mis conducts,
  • in-accuracy,
  • slip ups,
  • mis-conducts,
  • mis deed,
  • in accuracies,
  • in discretion,
  • over sight,
  • mis-demeanors,
  • over-sight,
  • in discretions,
  • mis conduct,
  • mis-cues,
  • in accuracy,
  • mis-deeds,
  • evil doings,
  • over-sights,
  • mis-cue,
  • in-accuracies,
  • mis-conduct.
  • guilt (noun)
  • self-reproach,
  • sinfulness,
  • criminalities,
  • blameworthiness,
  • malefactions,
  • self-condemnation,
  • Malefaction,
  • criminality,
  • Peccability.
  • incumbrance (noun)
  • incumbrance.
  • liability (noun)
  • accountablenesses,
  • de-bits,
  • subjections,
  • de-bit,
  • indebtments,
  • dis-advantages,
  • dis-advantage,
  • dis advantages,
  • in-conveniences,
  • dis advantage,
  • de bit,
  • in conveniences,
  • in-convenience,
  • de bits.
  • millstone (noun)
  • mental weight.
  • obligation (noun)
  • due bill.
  • odium (noun)
  • dispprobation.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • odium,
  • burden of proof,
  • blot,
  • concern,
  • deadweight,
  • worry,
  • tax,
  • workflow,
  • loss of innocence,
  • Indebtment,
  • fretfulness,
  • liabilities,
  • load,
  • committal,
  • stew,
  • brand,
  • remainder,
  • grindstones,
  • tribulation,
  • vulnerability,
  • headache,
  • smudge,
  • committals,
  • thing,
  • evil doing,
  • care,
  • reproach,
  • long row to hoe,
  • Cumbrance,
  • minuses,
  • subjection,
  • imputation,
  • boundness,
  • fun and games,
  • blame,
  • slip-up,
  • encumbrance,
  • thorn in one's side,
  • fault,
  • Obligatoriness,
  • oughts,
  • stain,
  • lease,
  • weight,
  • holding the bag,
  • weary load,
  • onus probandi,
  • guilt,
  • failings,
  • susceptibleness,
  • burthen,
  • deadweights,
  • grindstone,
  • white elephant,
  • charge,
  • needs,
  • burthens,
  • speck,
  • openness,
  • owings,
  • thorn in side,
  • ink spot,
  • head ache,
  • Accountableness,
  • Vulnerableness,
  • infamy,
  • excess baggage,
  • vexation,
  • liability,
  • ink spots,
  • task,
  • more trouble than it's worth,
  • besmirchment,
  • slip up,
  • duty,
  • responsibility,
  • slur,
  • slip-ups,
  • ought.
  • responsibility (noun)
  • holding bag,
  • boundnesses,
  • obligatorinesses.
  • slur (noun)
  • zingers,
  • brickbats,
  • zinger,
  • dirty dig,
  • brickbat,
  • putdown.
  • stain (noun)
  • sinisters.
  • stigma (noun)
  • besmirchments,
  • lost faces.
  • task (noun)
  • fun games,
  • fun and gameses,
  • long row hoe,
  • fun gameses.
  • weight (noun)
  • cumbrances.
  • white elephant (noun)
  • more trouble than it's worths,
  • more trouble than its worths,
  • more trouble than it worths,
  • white-elephant,
  • more trouble than it worth,
  • more trouble than its worth.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • burden,
  • relationship.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • guardianship,
  • hat,
  • compulsion,
  • remit,
  • trusteeship,
  • accountability,
  • purview,
  • sphere,
  • attaint,
  • ownership,
  • obligation,
  • province.
  •
  • call,
  • job,
  • black eye,
  • stigma,
  • baton,
  • culpability.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • misfortune,
  • bitterness,
  • censure,
  • fardel,
  • work,
  • anxiety,
  • reprehensibility,
  • determination,
  • business,
  • impediment,
  • badge of infamy,
  • indictability,
  • bad fortune,
  • disadvantage,
  • aspersion,
  • requirement,
  • impact,
  • brunt,
  • Hinderance,
  • curse,
  • core,
  • chargeability,
  • nightmare,
  • command,
  • jealousy,
  • occupation,
  • pressure,
  • lumber,
  • effect,
  • consignment,
  • gist,
  • role,
  • barrier,
  • call of duty,
  • demure,
  • homage,
  • assigned task,
  • cynicism,
  • absolute indication,
  • demand,
  • grievance,
  • uncertainty,
  • trouble,
  • imposition,
  • Gravamen,
  • inculpation,
  • lading,
  • hamper,
  • haze,
  • inconvenience,
  • essence,
  • assignment,
  • vagueness,
  • ordeal,
  • albatross,
  • smear,
  • preventive,
  • deference,
  • skid,
  • conclusive evidence,
  • cross,
  • obscurity,
  • disaster,
  • dead weight,
  • distrust,
  • ethics,
  • champain,
  • preventative,
  • guiltiness,
  • shipment,
  • impedimenta,
  • Pillorying,
  • spoke,
  • violence,
  • handicap,
  • broad arrow,
  • scepticism,
  • line of duty,
  • calamity,
  • catastrophe,
  • demonstration,
  • dedication,
  • implication,
  • smirch,
  • interference,
  • adversity,
  • difficulty,
  • disparagement,
  • loyalty,
  • clog,
  • pack,
  • imperative,
  • a blot on one's escutcheon,
  • dependency,
  • stop,
  • question,
  • hitch,
  • agent fill,
  • cross to bear,
  • strain,
  • accusation,
  • hindrance,
  • bit,
  • debt,
  • qualm,
  • remora,
  • red-handedness,
  • reflection,
  • rap,
  • chore,
  • devotion,
  • trauma,
  • affliction,
  • open question,
  • onslaught,
  • moral obligation,
  • road transport,
  • prophylactic,
  • shock,
  • freight,
  • reprimand,
  • black mark,
  • hardship,
  • mistrust,
  • obstruction,
  • censurability,
  • suspended load,
  • grief,
  • stigmatism,
  • indisputable evidence,
  • trial,
  • stint,
  • dependence,
  • travail,
  • shoe,
  • fog,
  • cargo,
  • Reproachableness,
  • stress,
  • incontrovertible evidence,
  • place,
  • ill luck,
  • ambiguity,
  • misuse,
  • scruple,
  • fealty,
  • calling,
  • contingency,
  • force,
  • Misdoubt,
  • misgiving,
  • obstacle,
  • unmistakable sign,
  • darkness,
  • Censurableness,
  • allegiance,
  • function,
  • arraignability,
  • stay,
  • explosive charge,
  • loading,
  • drag,
  • involvement,
  • sure sign,
  • consequence,
  • warhead,
  • distress,
  • arraignableness,
  • part,
  • drawback,
  • penalty,
  • bounden duty,
  • establishment,
  • stigmatization,
  • blind bargain,
  • skepticism,
  • intrusion,
  • doubt,
  • settlement,
  • complicity,
  • snag,
  • payload,
  • bad luck,
  • office,
  • proof,
  • bend sinister,
  • guilty conscience,
  • Reprovableness,
  • suspicion,
  • electric charge,
  • smutch,
  • must,
  • embarrassment,
  • impeachability,
  • Peccancy,
  • double meaning,
  • lode,
  • electrical charge.

Paraphrases for Onus:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    burden, burdens.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    responsibility.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    accountability, charge, duty, load, obligation.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    burden, liability, requirement.