moderate and medium
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moderate and medium
This is a newbie question I have.
In combat, "You swing your long slender dagger at the smelly blue female gremlin's left hand and hurt her moderately, without using lethal force."
Is wounding someone "moderately" more or less than just wounding?
And medium-sized pebbles, nuggets and stones are smaller than normal-sized ones, right?
In combat, "You swing your long slender dagger at the smelly blue female gremlin's left hand and hurt her moderately, without using lethal force."
Is wounding someone "moderately" more or less than just wounding?
And medium-sized pebbles, nuggets and stones are smaller than normal-sized ones, right?
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Can anyone think of another size between normal and small?
Maybe we should move them around and add a tinier-than-tiny or bigger-than-big term:
tiny>small>normal>big>huge
or:
very tiny(what's a word for that?)>tiny>small>normal>big
or clothes sizes?:
xs>s>m>l>xl
or we could be really creative:
pea-sized>coin-sized (or grape-sized or eyeball-sized!)>plum-sized>egg-sized>fist-sized (or apple-sized. hehe)
The last set makes me pretty hungry!
Maybe we should move them around and add a tinier-than-tiny or bigger-than-big term:
tiny>small>normal>big>huge
or:
very tiny(what's a word for that?)>tiny>small>normal>big
or clothes sizes?:
xs>s>m>l>xl
or we could be really creative:
pea-sized>coin-sized (or grape-sized or eyeball-sized!)>plum-sized>egg-sized>fist-sized (or apple-sized. hehe)
The last set makes me pretty hungry!
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Moderate
: not severe in effect : not seriously or permanently disabling or incapacitating <a few days of moderate illness accompanied by chilly sensations and loss of appetite —Morris Fishbein> <of the 18 cases in which whooping cough developed .t.t. 13.3 percent were very mild, 4.8 percent were mild and 3.7 percent were moderate —Journal of the American Medical Association>
Just though to post an accurate description of the word...btw...for all of us not native english speakers out there try out www.dictionary.com, helps me quite a bit checking the uncertain words from there.
: not severe in effect : not seriously or permanently disabling or incapacitating <a few days of moderate illness accompanied by chilly sensations and loss of appetite —Morris Fishbein> <of the 18 cases in which whooping cough developed .t.t. 13.3 percent were very mild, 4.8 percent were mild and 3.7 percent were moderate —Journal of the American Medical Association>
Just though to post an accurate description of the word...btw...for all of us not native english speakers out there try out www.dictionary.com, helps me quite a bit checking the uncertain words from there.
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