What's the difference between awesome and badass?

Awesome


Definition:

  • (a.) Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
  • (a.) Expressive of awe or terror.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This year, we have started building better tools for moderators and for admins to help keep subreddits and Reddit awesome, but our infrastructure is monolithic, and it is going to take some time.
  • (2) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
  • (3) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
  • (4) The best way, perhaps, to sum up the awesome strength of this Spanish squad is to look at the category-A footballers who did not even start this match – a list that includes Pepe Reina, Cesc Fábregas and Fernando Torres, quite possibly the best goalkeeper, midfielder and striker in England last season.
  • (5) He's awesome," Rodman said of Kim – comments that were immediately attacked by those who tend to focus on North Korea's human rights record.
  • (6) The international players on the Spurs, and there are an awful lot of them, are representing their home countries which is kind of awesome to see.
  • (7) It is early days, and what is to say the people of Gateshead or Cardiff will be quite so forthcoming with the exclamations of "cool", "awesome" and "neat" as the audience in Oxford.
  • (8) We approached a community of women, members of a "platform for awesome women" called The Li.st , to find out.
  • (9) The exercise by a state of its most awesome power – the power to deprive a citizen of his life – must be accompanied by due process and complete transparency.
  • (10) He said he was grateful that the attack was bringing the community together and that it was “awesome honestly to be able to give people a hope that not everybody hates everybody”.
  • (11) Whenever the Austrian director shows one of his films in Cannes, I always come out thinking the others might as well just pack up and go home because they'll never reach his awesome heights of control and precision.
  • (12) Another curiosity - LeSean McCoy was held well under 100 yards that day, and he's awesome.
  • (13) This must be the most awesomely authoritarian project to emerge in western Europe since 1945.
  • (14) If you are trying to analyse a game, don’t stop at, “if I just added sniper rifles to this, it would be cool” – think about all the ways that adding sniper rifles could really hurt the game; try to understand design as a precarious balance, not just a shopping list of awesome shit.
  • (15) Maktabi cites responses "that range from 'I want to have this now because I want to try it with my boyfriend'", to "I want to write about the anthropological impact of this app on…", and adds that his favourites are "those anonymous messages that just say 'awesome'".
  • (16) It is just so awesome to see how the crowds are out there,” said Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, who added that she ended up stuck in her car after protests shut down traffic.
  • (17) The “biscuit” and “football” are the embodiment of the awesome, civilisation-ending power that will be put in Trump’s hands on 20 January.
  • (18) Camera Awesome The hit iOS photography app snapped onto Android this year, with just as impressive a range of photography features focused on taking better shots, not just on sharing them.
  • (19) "That's no criticism to girls who can wear a tiny dress and kill it – that's awesome.
  • (20) I think it's going to age well – when I played it yesterday it sounded fucking awesome.

Badass


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pakistan Upset at the possible damage to its badass reputation, sues for appearing too stable in Charlie Wilson's War .
  • (2) On Thursday her daughter posted a photo on Instagram captioned "Mom's badass new hobby."
  • (3) The financial regulator is not there to act like a badass new sheriff in town who is going to cleanse it of the riffraff and crack down on loose morals.
  • (4) She is based on a real-life person, though – and that person is pretty badass."
  • (5) It is anyone's guess what Murdoch makes of a site that reacted to Lady Thatcher's death last week with an avalanche of stories, a mixture of serious and silly, such as " Margaret Thatcher's 19 Most Badass Moments " and " 16 Cats Interpret 16 Margaret Thatcher Quotes ".
  • (6) He plays a wisecracking badass called Snow who's tasked to rescue the president's daughter from a giant space prison overrun by its violent inmates.
  • (7) Badass Digest's report would appear to contradict the widely held assumption that Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, returning to the classic roles of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo from the original trilogy which hit cinemas between 1977 and 1983, will be the obvious leads in Episode VII.
  • (8) She sent in a response and posed for photos with the creators of the Tumblr parody Texts from Hillary , which featured the secretary running the world and sending badass tweets from behind dark sunglasses.
  • (9) On the online memorial site forsasoun.com , another circus colleague wrote: "I can't believe I'll never again see your smiling face behind that mask of warrior paint … You were, and always in my heart will be, among the most badass of badasses."
  • (10) A next generation badass boss bitch that we and Princess Leia can be proud of.
  • (11) One minute our duo is walking in slow-motion to Isaac Hayes like total badasses, the next an errant sneeze nearly kills the pair of them.
  • (12) He’s a badass producer from Peckham and I love practically everything he does.
  • (13) Plants vs Zombies The zombies are coming, and all you have to defend your house with are an array of badass plants, from peashooters to repellent garlic.
  • (14) The idea that Prince, he was 5ft 3in, with heels on, that he looked – for lack of a better word – fey, and yet he was a complete and total badass, with women lined up behind him, was incredible.
  • (15) Some years later, he had the idea for a TV show about a female badass who, unlike Buffy or Alias's Sydney Bristow , didn't have awesome martial arts skills.
  • (16) More than that, though, he is the leader, self-proclaimed "badass" and charismatic mouthpiece of the group.
  • (17) The towering Scot who plays Sandor "the Hound" Clegane – foremost sword-swinging badass in a series not lacking on that front – is in LA for a Game Of Thrones premiere and goblet-clanging celebratory shindig, along with 23 other stars from the show.
  • (18) Their slick, violent reinvention of 1980s TV spy drama The Equalizer stars Washington as retired intelligence officer Robert McCall, an enigmatic loner with OCD symptoms and latent badass training.
  • (19) Photograph: Lucasfilm According to Badass Digest, the narrative sweep of Episode VII intentionally echoes 1977's Star Wars , with the quest for Skywalker replacing the original protagonist's hunt for Obi Wan Kenobi.
  • (20) Badass gymnast: Louis Smith, 23, from Peterborough.