Onerous vs Discouraging - What's the difference?

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Onerous is a related term of discouraging.

As adjectives the difference between onerous and discouraging

is that onerous is imposing]] or [[constitute|constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort while discouraging is that causes discouragement.

As a verb discouraging is

As a noun discouraging is

discouragement.

onerous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

imposing]] or [[constitute, constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort.

* 1820 , , "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow":

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.

* 1848 , , Shirley , ch. 13:

Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation,—no matter how onerous , how irksome.

* 1910 , , "The Golden Poppy" in Revolution and Other Essays :

[I]t has become an onerous duty, a wearisome and distasteful task.

Synonyms

* (burdensome) demanding, difficult, taxing, wearing

Derived terms

* onerously

discouraging

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(head)

that causes discouragement

* 1876 Brewster Higley - A Home on the Range

* Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam / Where the Deer and the Antelope play; / Where never is heard a discouraging word, / And the sky is not clouded all day

Synonyms

* See also

Noun

(en noun)

discouragement

* Lydia Ann Barclay

But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings , and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles