Odious vs Accursed - What's the difference?
odious | accursed |
Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
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* {{quote-book
, year=1818
, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=6
(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 odious and accursed
is that odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure while accursed is (prenominal) hateful; detestable.As a verb accursed is
(accurse).odious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.
citation, passage=He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.}}
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "odious" is often applied: debt, man, character, crime, task, comparison, woman, person, vice, word, act.Synonyms
* detestable, hated, reviled, unsavory, contemptible, despicableAnagrams
*accursed
English
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