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Hellish vs Accursed - What's the difference?

hellish | accursed |

As adjectives the difference between hellish and accursed

is that hellish is causing pain, discomfort or distress while accursed is hateful; detestable.

As a verb accursed is

past tense of accurse.

hellish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing pain, discomfort or distress.
    • I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.

    Synonyms

    * awful * horrible * terrible * nightmarish * infernal

    Antonyms

    * heavenly

    Related terms

    * see hell

    accursed

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) accurst

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (prenominal) Hateful; detestable.
  • * ca. 1789 , ",
    • Accursed' race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you ' accursed sons.
  • * 1819 , ,
    • Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.
  • (archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
  • * 1885 , Charles Abel Heurtley (translator), The Commonitory of ,
    • —if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed .
  • * 1912 , ,
    • For at the very moment I become accursed , at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen

    Synonyms

    * execrable, damnable

    Derived terms

    * accursedly * accursedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (accurse)

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