onerous

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 12, 2017 is:

onerous \AH-nuh-rus\ adjective

1 : involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/troublesome)

2 : having legal obligations that outweigh the advantages

Examples:

"Payroll is a complex set of data and tasks. It requires as much simplicity in terms of user interface and navigation as developers can manage..... Every payroll service I've reviewed this year does a good job of simplifying this onerous process." — David Harsanyi, The Times Record News (Wichita Falls, Texas), 12 Mar. 2016

"Seems to me that, to be a superfood, a food's got to deliver more than nutrients. It has to be cheap, versatile, good-tasting, not too onerous to prepare and not so perishable that you end up tossing it." — Tamar Haspel, The Oregonian, 7 June 2017

Did you know?

Onerous, which traces back to the Latin onus, meaning "burden," has several synonyms. Like onerous, burdensome, oppressive, and exacting_ all refer to something which imposes a hardship of some kind. Onerous stresses a sense of laboriousness and heaviness, especially because something is distasteful ("the onerous task of cleaning up the mess"). Burdensome (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burdensome) suggests something which causes mental as well as physical strain ("the burdensome responsibilities of being a supervisor"). Oppressive (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oppressive) implies extreme harshness or severity in what is imposed ("the oppressive tyranny of a police state"). Exacting (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exacting) suggests rigor or sternness rather than tyranny or injustice in the demands made or in the one demanding ("an exacting employer who requires great attention to detail").

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