'onus' definitions:
Definition of 'onus'
(from WordNet)
noun
An onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus]
Synonyms of 'onus'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute indication,
- allegiance,
- arraignability,
- arraignableness,
- aspersion,
- assigned task,
- attaint,
- badge of infamy,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bend sinister,
- black eye,
- black mark,
- blameworthiness,
- bloody hands,
- blot,
- blur,
- bounden duty,
- brand,
- broad arrow,
- burden,
- burden of proof,
- burthen,
- business,
- call of duty,
- cargo,
- censurability,
- censurableness,
- censure,
- champain,
- charge,
- chargeability,
- commitment,
- complicity,
- conclusive evidence,
- criminality,
- cross,
- culpability,
- cumbrance,
- damning evidence,
- deadweight,
- dedication,
- deference,
- demonstration,
- determination,
- devoir,
- devotion,
- difficulty,
- dirty hands,
- disadvantage,
- disparagement,
- duties and responsibilities,
- duty,
- embarrassment,
- encumbrance,
- establishment,
- ethics,
- fault,
- fealty,
- freight,
- guilt,
- guiltiness,
- guilty conscience,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- homage,
- impeachability,
- impeachableness,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- imperative,
- implication,
- imposition,
- imputation,
- incontrovertible evidence,
- inconvenience,
- inculpation,
- indictability,
- indictableness,
- indisputable evidence,
- involvement,
- ironclad proof,
- line of duty,
- load,
- loyalty,
- lumber,
- mark of Cain,
- millstone,
- mission,
- must,
- obligation,
- odium,
- onus probandi,
- ought,
- pack,
- peccancy,
- penalty,
- pillorying,
- place,
- point champain,
- proof,
- red-handedness,
- reflection,
- reprehensibility,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- reproachableness,
- reprovability,
- reprovableness,
- respect,
- self-imposed duty,
- settlement,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smudge,
- smutch,
- spot,
- stain,
- stigma,
- stigmatism,
- stigmatization,
- sure sign,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- task,
- tax,
- trouble,
- unmistakable sign,
- weight,
- white elephant