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xeno439
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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 Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:57 am Post subject: Rank these words |
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Can a few of you rank these words in terms of negative connotation?
Add a few more if you like.
awful, diseased, distasteful, foul, grody, gross, icky, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, offensive, putrid, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, stinking, stomach-turning |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:21 am Post subject: Re: Rank these words |
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abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news*, beastly, blah*, bottom out, bummer*, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, cruddy*, crummy*, defective, deficient, diddly*, dissatisfactory, downer*, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, god-awful, gross*, grungy*, icky*, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky*, lousy*, not good, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, scuzzy, sleazeball, sleazy, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits*, unacceptable, unsatisfactory
Don't thank me. Thank thesaurus.com |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:17 am Post subject: Re: Rank these words |
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| xeno439 wrote: |
| Can a few of you rank these words in terms of negative connotation? |
My pleasure.
from least to most negative, however flawed and caveat-laden it is to do:
distasteful
awful
icky
stomach-turning
nasty
foul
nauseous
offensive
stinking
gross
grody
nauseating
revolting
rotten
putrid
repugnant
loathsome
repulsive
diseased |
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Njord
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:25 am Post subject: Re: Rank these words |
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Here's my list:
icky
nasty
distasteful
offensive
awful
stinking
grody
gross
foul
nauseous/nauseating
stomach-turning
rotten
diseased
putrid
repugnant
repulsive
revolting
loathsome |
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xeno439
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:26 am Post subject: Re: Rank these words |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| xeno439 wrote: |
| Can a few of you rank these words in terms of negative connotation? |
My pleasure.
from least to most negative, however flawed and caveat-laden it is to do:
distasteful
awful
icky
stomach-turning
nasty
foul
nauseous
offensive
stinking
gross
grody
nauseating
revolting
rotten
putrid
repugnant
loathsome
repulsive
diseased |
I am in agreement here. I was rooting for diseased to top the list.
Thanks. Can anyone top diseased? |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| Can anyone top diseased? |
ogrish/ogreish
not exactly a synonym, but extreme in it's meaning |
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