Onerous

Adjective

 * 1) burdensome; difficult; wearing; tiring

Antonyms

 * gratuitous

Related terms

 * exonerate
 * exoneration
 * onus

Adverbs for Onerous
unusually; remarkably; uncommonly; formidably; embarrassingly; objectionably; tremendously; grievously; cruelly; unexpectedly; perplexingly; bewilderingly; desperately; irksomely; unaccountably; surprisingly; singularly.

Thesaurus
Herculean, annoying, arduous, arduously, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, burdensomely, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, demanding, difficult, difficultly, effortful, encumbering, exacting, exhausting, exigent, forced, grievous, grinding, grueling, hampering, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, hardly, harsh, heavy, heavy-handed, hefty, impedimental, impeding, impeditive, incumbent, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, laboriously, lumpish, massive, onerously, operose, oppressive, overburdensome, painful, plaguey, ponderous, punishing, strained, strenuous, superincumbent, taxing, toilsome, toilsomely, tough, troublesome, trying, tyrannous, unruly, unwieldy, uphill, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weighty

Etymology
From onerosus:, from onus:.

Translations

 * Dutch: ,
 * German: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: tegoban, zamoran


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: jobbig