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Heinous vs Deplorable - What's the difference?

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Heinous is a synonym of deplorable.


As adjectives the difference between heinous and deplorable

is that heinous is totally reprehensible while deplorable is lamentable, regrettable.

heinous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Totally reprehensible.
    • 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, odious

    Anagrams

    * English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    deplorable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.
  • (senseid)To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.
  • :
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  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable , fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

    • Synonyms

    * pathetic