Durable vs Hectic - What's the difference?
durable | hectic |
(economics) A durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
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Pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.
Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.
(obsolete) A hectic fever.
(obsolete) A flush like one produced by such a fever.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.147:
As adjectives the difference between durable and hectic
is that durable is able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring while hectic is pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.As nouns the difference between durable and hectic
is that durable is a durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year while hectic is a hectic fever.durable
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Synonyms
* permanentAntonyms
* weak * vulnerable * transitoryNoun
(en noun)Antonyms
* nondurable ----hectic
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Alternative forms
* hectick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- hectic''' fever; a '''hectic patient
- The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
Synonyms
* feverishDerived terms
* hecticallyNoun
(en noun)- For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills [...].