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Odious vs Cursed - What's the difference?

odious | cursed |

As adjectives the difference between odious and cursed

is that odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure while cursed is .

odious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
    • Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.
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    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=6 citation , passage=He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.}}

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "odious" is often applied: debt, man, character, crime, task, comparison, woman, person, vice, word, act.

    Synonyms

    * detestable, hated, reviled, unsavory, contemptible, despicable

    Anagrams

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    cursed

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (poetic) * curst (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse.
  • (obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :
  • *:LEONATO. By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
  • *:ANTONIO. In faith, she's too curst .
  • *:BEATRICE. Too curst' is more than '''curst''': I shall lessen God's sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a '''curst''' cow short horns;' but to a cow too ' curst he sends none.

    • Antonyms

    * blessed
    Derived terms
    * cursedness * cursedly

    Verb

    (head)
  • (curse)

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