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Odious vs Quiescent - What's the difference?

odious | quiescent |

As adjectives the difference between odious and quiescent

is that odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure while quiescent is inactive, at rest, quiet.

odious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
    • Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.
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  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=6 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, despicable

    Anagrams

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    quiescent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inactive, at rest, quiet.
    • The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.
  • * Professor Wilson
    • In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist.
  • (grammar) Not sounded; silent.
    • The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".

    Synonyms

    * still * tranquil

    Derived terms

    * quiescence * quiescently

    See also

    * acquiescent * quiesce ----