Onerous vs Trying - What's the difference?
onerous | trying | Related terms |
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 :
Difficult to endure; arduous.
*1891 , Conan Doyle,
*:"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
(philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
* 2006 , Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility (page 145)
Onerous is a related term of trying.
As adjectives the difference between onerous and trying
is that onerous is imposing]] or [[constitute|constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort while trying is difficult to endure; arduous.As a verb trying is
.As a noun trying is
(philosophy) the act by which one tries something; an attempt.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
* onerouslytrying
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.