Difference between Owed and Outstanding

What is the difference between Owed and Outstanding?

Owed as an adjective is that owes. while Outstanding as an adjective is prominent or noticeable; standing out from others

Owed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: That owes.

Example sentence: He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Outstanding

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: prominent or noticeable; standing out from othersdistinguished from others by its superiorityprojecting outwardsunresolved; not settled or finishedowed as a debt

Example sentence: The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

We hope you now know whether to use Owed or Outstanding in your sentence.

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