Abhorrent vs Accursed - What's the difference?
abhorrent | accursed |
(archaic) Inconsistent with; far removed from; strongly opposed to, as, abhorrent thoughts.
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Contrary to; discordant.
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Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
Detestable or repugnant.
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(prenominal) Hateful; detestable.
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(archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
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(accurse)
As adjectives the difference between abhorrent and accursed
is that abhorrent is (archaic) inconsistent with; far removed from; strongly opposed to, as, abhorrent thoughts while accursed is (prenominal) hateful; detestable.As a verb accursed is
(accurse).abhorrent
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(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* Nouns to which abhorrent is often applied: behavior, act, crime, practice, thing. * (opposed) abhorrent'' is typically folled by ''from . * (contrary) abhorrent'' is followed by ''to .External links
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accursed
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) accurstAdjective
(en adjective)- Accursed' race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you ' accursed sons.
- Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.
- —if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed .
- For at the very moment I become accursed , at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen