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Repellent vs Cursed - What's the difference?

repellent | cursed |

As adjectives the difference between repellent and cursed

is that repellent is tending or able to repel; driving back while cursed is .

As a noun repellent

is someone who repels.

repellent

English

(wikipedia repellent)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • tending or able to repel; driving back
  • repulsive, inspiring aversion
  • * '>citation
  • resistant or impervious to something

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone who repels
  • a substance used to repel insects
  • a substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something

    • cursed

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (poetic) * curst (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse.
  • (obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :
  • *:LEONATO. By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
  • *:ANTONIO. In faith, she's too curst .
  • *:BEATRICE. Too curst' is more than '''curst''': I shall lessen God's sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a '''curst''' cow short horns;' but to a cow too ' curst he sends none.

    • Antonyms

    * blessed
    Derived terms
    * cursedness * cursedly

    Verb

    (head)
  • (curse)

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