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Originally posted by mdaj: Originally posted by chrisilversvt:
what a ridiculously stupid comment....just because you don't like something that means its horrible?????
What? Usually, when a person dislikes something they think it's bad. Bad essentially means horrible so im at a lost for what you were trying to say?????
Well... the deffiniton of horrible
hor?·ri?·ble ( P ) Pronunciation Key (h?´r-bl, hr-) adj. Arousing or tending to arouse horror; dreadful: â??War is beyond all words horribleâ? (Winston S. Churchill). Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin horribilis, from horrre, to tremble.] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- horri?·ble?·ness n. horri?·bly adv.
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horrible
\Hor"ri*ble\, a. [OE. horrible, orrible, OF. horrible, orrible, F. horrible, fr. L. horribilis, fr. horrere. See Horror.] Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.
A dungeon horrible on all sides round. --Milton.
Syn: Dreadful; frightful; fearful; terrible; awful; terrific; shocking; hideous; horrid.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ?© 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
horrible
adj : provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly]
and bad is
bad1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (bd) adj. worse, (w?»rs) worst (w?»rst) Not achieving an adequate standard; poor: a bad concert. Evil; sinful. Vulgar or obscene: bad language. Informal. Disobedient or naughty: bad children. Disagreeable, unpleasant, or disturbing: a bad piece of news. Unfavorable: bad reviews for the play. Not fresh; rotten or spoiled: bad meat. Injurious in effect; detrimental: bad habits. Not working properly; defective: a bad telephone connection. Full of or exhibiting faults or errors: bad grammar. Having no validity; void: passed bad checks. Being so far behind in repayment as to be considered a loss: bad loans. Severe; intense: a bad cold.
Being in poor health or in pain: I feel bad today. Being in poor condition; diseased: bad lungs. Sorry; regretful: She feels bad about how she treated you. bad?·der, bad?·dest Slang. Very good; great.
The two are not synonymous.
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