Badass vs Harass - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between badass and harass

is that badass is (us|slang) a mean or belligerent person; a person with extreme attitudes, behavior or appearance while harass is (obsolete) devastation; waste.

As an adjective badass

is (us|slang) having extreme appearance, attitude, or behavior that is considered admirable.

As a verb harass is

to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.

badass

English

Alternative forms

* bad-ass

Noun

(es)

(US, slang) A mean or belligerent person; a person with extreme attitudes, behavior or appearance.

Don't mess with that guy, he's a real badass .

Adjective

(en adjective)

(US, slang) Having extreme appearance, attitude, or behavior that is considered admirable.

That tough guy looks badass .

Usage notes

* See cool (senses 3-7). * Compare wicked (sense 2) * See (etymology 2)

Synonyms

* (admirable) cool, awesome

harass

English

Verb

(es)

To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or

To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.

* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]

In my old home, I always knew that John and my master were my friends; but here, although in many ways I was well treated, I had no friend. York might have known, and very likely did know, how that rein harassed me; but I suppose he took it as a matter of course that could not be helped; at any rate nothing was done to relieve me.

To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.

in the early 1940s.

Synonyms

* hassle * harry * chivy or chivvy * chevy or chevvy * beset * plague * molest * provoke

Derived terms

* harasser * harassment

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Noun

(obsolete) devastation; waste

(Milton)

(obsolete) worry; harassment

(Byron)