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Impoverished vs Grudging - What's the difference?

impoverished | grudging |

As adjectives the difference between impoverished and grudging

is that impoverished is reduced to poverty while grudging is unwilling or with reluctance.

As verbs the difference between impoverished and grudging

is that impoverished is past tense of impoverish while grudging is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun grudging is

the state of bearing a grudge.

impoverished

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Reduced to poverty.
  • Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * impoverishedly * impoverishedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (impoverish)

    • grudging

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unwilling or with reluctance.
    • her grudging acceptance that her rival deserved the award

    Derived terms

    * grudgingly

    Related terms

    * grudge * grudger

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of bearing a grudge.
  • * 1806 , Matthew Henry, An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments
    • Fretfulness and discontent expose us to the just judgment of God; and we bring more calamities upon ourselves, by our murmuring, distrustful, envious groans and grudgings against one another, than we are aware of

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