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What is another word for onerous?

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Requiring, or involving, great mental or physical effort

Difficult to bear or endure

Adjective

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Requiring, or involving, great mental or physical effort

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

labored^US

laboured^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

easier said than done

like getting blood out of a stone

tremendously difficult

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“But the new rules will place onerous responsibilities on employers.”

Adjective

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Difficult to bear or endure

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

humourless^UK

humorless^US

unfavorable^US

with a heart of stone

ill-humored^US

somber^US

sombre^UK

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

like a bear with a sore head

rubbing the wrong way

uncivilised^UK

uncivilized^US

straight from the shoulder

gray^US

grey^UK

knock-down-and-drag-out

having a killer instinct

throwing one's weight about

at each other's throats

like a bull in a china shop

sticking to one's guns

standing one's ground

not mincing one's words

speaking one's mind

calling a spade a spade

not beating about the bush

having got out of bed on the wrong side

as cross as two sticks

foul-tempered

having got out of bed the wrong side

terrorizing^US

proof against persuasion

wintry^US

terrorising^UK

not afraid to call a spade a spade

wintery^UK

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“There was a strong probability that they would work for a year in a small village, quite possibly in the semi-desert, in onerous conditions.”

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