Harrowing vs Distasteful - What's the difference?
harrowing | distasteful | Related terms |
Causing pain or distress.
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Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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Harrowing is a related term of distasteful.
As adjectives the difference between harrowing and distasteful
is that harrowing is causing pain or distress while distasteful is having a bad or foul taste.As a verb harrowing
is .As a noun harrowing
is the process of breaking up earth with a harrow.harrowing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
citation, passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}
distasteful
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Alternative forms
* distastefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
