Threatening vs Onerous - What's the difference?
threatening | onerous | Related terms |
An act of threatening; a threat.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts IV:
* Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
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 :
Threatening is a related term of onerous.
As adjectives the difference between threatening and onerous
is that threatening is presenting a threat; menacing; frightening while onerous is imposing]] or [[constitute|constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort.As a verb threatening
is .As a noun threatening
is an act of threatening; a threat.threatening
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Alternative forms
* threatning (obsolete)Verb
(head)Derived terms
* life-threatening * nonthreatening, non-threatening * threateningly * threateningness * unthreateningNoun
(en noun)- And nowe lorde beholde their threatenynges , and graunte unto thy servauntes wyth all confydence to speake thy worde.
- The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently
onerous
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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.