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Detestable vs Disquieting - What's the difference?

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Detestable is a related term of disquieting.


As adjectives the difference between detestable and disquieting

is that detestable is detestable, despicable while disquieting is causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.

As a verb disquieting is

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As a noun disquieting is

the act by which someone or something is disquieted.

detestable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "detestable" is often applied: crime, thing, practices, act, character, nature, person, conduct, villain, behavior.

    Derived terms

    * detestableness

    Related terms

    * detest * detestability

    See also

    * hateful * abominable * loathsome * horrid

    Anagrams

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    disquieting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.
  • *
  • *:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone or something is disquieted.
  • * Edward Reynolds
    • Thus we see the intuition of divine truth in minds of defiled affections, worketh not that sweet effect which is natural unto it to produce; but doubtings, terrors, and disquietings of conscience