onerous
very difficult
TRANSLATION
beschwerlich, drückend, lästig
STATISTICS
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Night working is particularly ONEROUS and many members suffer many health problems due to such working. The BBC states that a life/work balance is important and ... This should become a corporate condition of service."
(BECTU - March 2003)
(BECTU - March 2003)
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Meanings:
1. Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome.
2. (Law) Entailing obligations that exceed advantages.
Synonyms: burdensome, onerous, oppressive, arduous, demanding, rigorous, exacting
These adjectives apply to what imposes a severe test of bodily or spiritual strength.
Burdensome is associated with both mental and physical hardship: The burdensome task of preparing her tax return awaited her.
Onerous connotes the figuratively heavy load imposed by something irksome or annoying: My only onerous duty was having to greet the guests.
Something oppressive weighs one down in body or spirit: Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off (Herbert Spencer).
Arduous emphasizes the expenditure of sustained and often exhausting labor: Becoming a doctor is an arduous undertaking.
Demanding, rigorous, and exacting imply the imposition of severe and uncompromising demands: Music is a demanding art. Yet out of this unflattering, rigorous realism... Swift made great art2 (M.D. Aeschliman). Archaeology is exacting work.
Meanings:
1. Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome.
2. (Law) Entailing obligations that exceed advantages.
Synonyms: burdensome, onerous, oppressive, arduous, demanding, rigorous, exacting
These adjectives apply to what imposes a severe test of bodily or spiritual strength.
Burdensome is associated with both mental and physical hardship: The burdensome task of preparing her tax return awaited her.
Onerous connotes the figuratively heavy load imposed by something irksome or annoying: My only onerous duty was having to greet the guests.
Something oppressive weighs one down in body or spirit: Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off (Herbert Spencer).
Arduous emphasizes the expenditure of sustained and often exhausting labor: Becoming a doctor is an arduous undertaking.
Demanding, rigorous, and exacting imply the imposition of severe and uncompromising demands: Music is a demanding art. Yet out of this unflattering, rigorous realism... Swift made great art2 (M.D. Aeschliman). Archaeology is exacting work.
