Amusing vs Divine - What's the difference?

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Amusing is a related term of divine.

As verbs the difference between amusing and divine

is that amusing is while divine is to foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.

As adjectives the difference between amusing and divine

is that amusing is entertaining while divine is of or pertaining to a god.

As a noun divine is

one skilled in divinity; a theologian.

amusing

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Entertaining.

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-21

, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Your gift at Christmas will soon be junk , volume=188, issue=2, page=24 , date=2012-12-10 , magazine= citation , passage=They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For 30 seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.}}

Funny, hilarious.

Synonyms

* See also * See also

Antonyms

* unamusing

Derived terms

* amusingness

divine

English

(wikipedia divine)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) divin, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)

of or pertaining to a god

eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

of superhuman or surpassing excellence

beautiful, heavenly

(obsolete) foreboding; prescient

* Milton

Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.

Relating to divinity or theology.

* South

church history and other divine learning

Synonyms

* (of or pertaining to a god) deific, godlike, godly * (sense) hallowed, holy, sacred * (of superhuman or surpassing excellence) supreme, ultimate * (sense) beautiful, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful

Antonyms

* (of or pertaining to a god) undivine, ungodly * (sense) godless, secular, ungodly * (of superhuman or surpassing excellence) humdrum, mediocre, ordinary * (sense) horrible, horrid, nasty, unpleasant

Derived terms

* all-divine * argument from divine hiddenness * Book of Divine Worship * * * countenance divine * * divine afflatus * * divine command theory * divine countenance * divine fallacy * divine grace * divine guidance * divine healing * divine inspiration * divine intervention * divine judgement, divine judgment * divine kings * divine kingship * divine lady * divine language * divine law * * Divine Liturgy * divinely * Divine Mercy Sunday * divine messenger * Divine Mind * Divine Mother * divine move * Divine Mystery * divineness * Divine Office, divine office * divine polity * The Divine Praises * divine proportion * Divine Providence * divine ratio * divine retribution * divine revelation * divine right * divine rule * divine section * divine service * divine simplicity * divine spark * divinesse * * divine will healing * * Feast of the Divine Mercy * * indivine * Mother Divine * Revelation of Saint John the Divine * semi-divine, semidivine * * subdivine * * undivine * undivinelike

Noun

(en noun)

One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

* Denham

Poets were the first divines .

A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

* J. Woodbridge

The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.

God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept

Synonyms

* (sense) clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian * (a deity) deity, god, God, Allah (Muslim)

Derived terms

* archdivine * school-divine

Etymology 2

From (etyl) deviner, from (etyl) divino.

Verb

(divin)

to foretell (something), especially by the use of divination

* Bancroft

a sagacity which divined the evil designs

* Shakespeare

Darest thou divine his downfall?

to guess (something)

* 1874 ,

no secret can be told
To any who divined it not before

* 1919 ,

If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.

* 2005 , .

I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.

to search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod

To render divine; to deify.

* Spenser

Living on earth like angel new divined .

Derived terms

(derived terms) * divinable * divined * divinement * diviner * divineress * divining * divinise, divinize * divinister

Anagrams

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