Offended vs Disheartened - What's the difference?
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(offend)
(transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
(transitive) To physically harm, pain.
(transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
(intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
(transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
(obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
* 1896 , Adolphus Frederick Schauffler, Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons , W. A. Wilde company, Page 161,
* New Testament'', Matthew 5:29 (''Sermon on the Mount ),
Discouraged, despairing.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
Offended is a related term of disheartened.
As verbs the difference between offended and disheartened
is that offended is (offend) while disheartened is (dishearten).As an adjective disheartened is
discouraged, despairing.offended
English
Verb
(head)offend
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended . She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.}}
- "If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."
- "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."
Quotations
* (English Citations of "offend")Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* offendedly * offendedness * offender * reoffendExternal links
* *disheartened
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He refused to get disheartened , even when all 50 writers polled by Newsweek predicted he would lose.