Onerous vs Audience - What's the difference?
onerous | audience |
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 :
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke VII:
A group of people within hearing; specifically a group of people listening to a performance, speech etc.; the crowd seeing a stage performance.
* , chapter=3
, title= A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
The readership of a book or other written publication.
A following.
As an adjective onerous
is imposing]] or [[constitute|constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort.As a noun audience is
audience.onerous
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.
Synonyms
* (burdensome) demanding, difficult, taxing, wearingDerived terms
* onerouslyaudience
English
Noun
(en noun)- When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- We joined the audience just as the lights went down.