Laborious vs Onerous - What's the difference?
laborious | onerous | Related terms |
Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
*
Mentally difficult; painstaking
Industrious.
* Dryden
imposing]] or [[constitute, constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort.
* 1820 , , "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow":
* 1848 , , Shirley , ch. 13:
* 1910 , , "The Golden Poppy" in Revolution and Other Essays :
As adjectives the difference between laborious and onerous
is that laborious is requiring much physical effort; toilsome while onerous is imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort.laborious
English
Alternative forms
* labourious * laborous * labourousAdjective
(en adjective)- Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious , and short.
- All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
Synonyms
* (requiring effort) painstaking, toilsome, worksomeDerived terms
* laboriouslyonerous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable.
- Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation,—no matter how onerous , how irksome.
- [I]t has become an onerous duty, a wearisome and distasteful task.
