Definitions
- Refusing to associate with someone or something due to disapproval or dislike. - Avoiding contact or interaction with someone or something intentionally. - Rejecting or ignoring someone or something completely.
- Escaping or avoiding something or someone skillfully. - Being difficult to understand or remember. - Failing to be achieved or attained despite efforts.
List of Similarities
- 1Both words involve avoiding something or someone.
- 2Both words imply a level of intentionality.
- 3Both words can be used to describe physical or non-physical avoidance.
What is the difference?
- 1Focus: Shun emphasizes avoidance due to disapproval or dislike, while elude emphasizes skillful avoidance.
- 2Action: Shun involves actively rejecting or ignoring someone or something, while elude involves escaping or avoiding something skillfully.
- 3Object: Shun is directed towards a person or thing that is disliked or disapproved of, while elude can refer to any obstacle or challenge that is avoided.
- 4Emotion: Shun implies negative emotions such as disapproval or dislike, while elude does not necessarily have an emotional connotation.
- 5Achievement: Elude can be used to describe a failure to achieve something, while shun cannot.
Remember this!
Shun and elude are both words that describe avoidance, but they differ in their focus, action, object, emotion, and achievement. Shun implies active rejection or ignoring of someone or something due to disapproval or dislike, while elude implies skillful avoidance of any obstacle or challenge. Shun is directed towards a specific person or thing, while elude can refer to any obstacle or challenge. Shun has a negative emotional connotation, while elude does not necessarily have an emotional connotation. Finally, elude can be used to describe a failure to achieve something, while shun cannot.
