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Repugnant vs Accursed - What's the difference?

repugnant | accursed |

As adjectives the difference between repugnant and accursed

is that repugnant is repugnant while accursed is (prenominal) hateful; detestable.

As verbs the difference between repugnant and accursed

is that repugnant is while accursed is (accurse).

repugnant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.
  • (legal) Opposed or in conflict.

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "repugnant" is often applied: act, nature, behavior, practice, character, thing, crime.

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * repugn * repugnance * repugnancy

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    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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