Oppressive vs Onerous - What's the difference?
oppressive | onerous | Synonyms |
Burdensome or difficult to bear.
Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
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 :
Oppressive is a synonym of onerous.
As adjectives the difference between oppressive and onerous
is that oppressive is burdensome or difficult to bear while onerous is imposing]] or [[constitute|constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort.oppressive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company.
- The oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers.
- Will the oppressive heat of summer never end?
Synonyms
* (weather) humid, closeonerous
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.