different between onerous vs lamentable

English

Etymology

From Middle English onerous, from Middle French onereux, from Old French onereus, from Latin onerosus (“burdensome”), from onus (“load”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n???s/, /???n???s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n???s/, /?o?n???s/

Adjective

onerous (comparative more onerous, superlative most onerous)

1. imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort; burdensome.
   • 1820, Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow":

     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.

   • 1910, Jack London, "The Golden Poppy" in Revolution and Other Essays:

     [I]t has become an onerous duty, a wearisome and distasteful task.

Synonyms

• (burdensome): demanding, difficult, taxing, wearing

Derived terms

• onerously

Related terms

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• honerous, onerose, onerouse

Etymology

From Middle French onereux, from Old French onereus, from Latin onerosus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??ru?s/, /??n?rus/

Adjective

onerous

1. (Late Middle English) onerous

Descendants

• English: onerous

References

• “oner?us, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-7.

English

Etymology

From Middle French lamentable, from Latin l?ment?bilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from l?mentor (“lament”), from l?menta (“wailing, weeping”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??m?n.t?.b?l/, /?læm.?n.t?.b?l/

Adjective

lamentable (comparative more lamentable, superlative most lamentable)

1. Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lamentable

Derived terms

• lamentability
• lamentableness
• lamentably

Related terms

• lament

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /l?.m?n?ta.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /la.men?ta.ble/

Adjective

lamentable (masculine and feminine plural lamentables)

1. lamentable, regrettable

Derived terms

• lamentablement

Related terms

• lamentar

Further reading

• “lamentable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin l?ment?bilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from l?mentor (“lament”), from l?menta (“wailing, weeping”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.m??.tabl/
• Homophone: lamentables
• Rhymes: -abl

Adjective

lamentable (plural lamentables)

1. lamentable; awful; deplorable

Derived terms

• lamentablement

Related terms

• lamenter

Further reading

• “lamentable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin l?ment?bilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from l?mentor (“lament”), from l?menta (“wailing, weeping”). Cognate with English lamentable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamen?table/, [la.m?n??t?a.??le]

Adjective

lamentable (plural lamentables)

1. lamentable, regrettable
   • 2001, Julio Montes Ponce de León, Medio ambiente y desarrollo sostenido, Univ Pontifica Comillas ?ISBN, page 64

Derived terms

• lamentablemente

Related terms

• lamentar (see for more terms)

Further reading

• “lamentable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.