not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule"
a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
formally laid down or imposed; "positive laws"
characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.; "a positive attitude"; "the reviews were all positive"; "a positive benefit"; "a positive demand"
greater than zero; "positive numbers"
reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion; "positive increase in graduating students"
indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen; "a positive pregnancy test"
having a positive electric charge; "protons are positive"
mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research"
difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
(computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained; "the solution is obtained by iteration"
(computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated; "the solution took hundreds of iterations"
requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding"