Cumbrous vs Onerous - What's the difference?
cumbrous | onerous |
Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , ch. 1
(obsolete) Giving trouble; vexatious.
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 cumbrous and onerous
is that cumbrous is unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome while onerous is imposing]] or [[constitute|constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort.cumbrous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. — Swift.
- That cumbrous and unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. — De Quincey.
- In the course of thousands of years, this cumbrous system developed into alphabetic writing.
- A cloud of cumbrous gnats. — Spenser.
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.