Heinous vs Accursed - What's the difference?
heinous | accursed |
Totally reprehensible.
(prenominal) Hateful; detestable.
* ca. 1789 , ",
* 1819 , ,
(archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
* 1885 , Charles Abel Heurtley (translator), The Commonitory of ,
* 1912 , ,
(accurse)
As adjectives the difference between heinous and accursed
is that heinous is totally reprehensible while accursed is (prenominal) hateful; detestable.As a verb accursed is
(accurse).heinous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I hope they catch the person responsible for that heinous crime.
- The perpetrators of this heinous act must be brought to justice.
- The government denounced the attack as the most heinous of the last decade.
- Political Leaders from around the world have condemned these heinous acts.
- In our public services sorry seems to be the most heinous word.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "heinous" is often applied: crime, act, sin, murder, offence.Synonyms
* (totally reprehensible) abominable, horrible, odiousaccursed
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) accurstAdjective
(en adjective)- Accursed' race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you ' accursed sons.
- Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.
- —if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed .
- For at the very moment I become accursed , at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen
